The Web has revolutionized the way information is delivered to people throughout the world. It did not take long for learning material to be delivered through the Web, by using electronic textbooks. The use of hypertext links gives the learner a lot of freedom to decide on an order in which to study the material. This leads to problems in understanding the textbook, which can be solved by using methods and techniques. In this chapter we describe how the field of educational hypermedia benefits from and . We also show that the information gathered about the learners and their learning process can be used to improve the quality of the electronic textbooks.
This paper deals with a new challenge in Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) and web-based systems: finding the adaptation language to express, independently from the domain model or platform, the intelligent, adaptive behaviour of personalised web courseware. The major requirements for the ideal language are: reuse, flexibility, high level semantics, and ease of use. To draw closer to this ideal language, we compare two such language proposals: LAG, a generic adaptation language, and a new XML adaptation language for Learning Styles (LS) in AHA!, LAG-XLS.
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