ADAPT "Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT"

CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

/department of mathematics and computer science

TU/e eindhoven university of technology

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ADAPT"Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT"

Alexandra [email protected]

http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/




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Contents• Project data at a glance• Goal• People• Types of activities• Evaluation/ dissemination strategies• Outcome of the project• Products and outputs: Adapt papers• Global time-table• Interesting information!!




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Project data at a glance• Minerva (Socrates) project: ADAPTADAPT• project reference number:

101144-CP-1-2002-NL-MINERVA-MPP*101144-CP-1-2002-NL-MINERVA-MPP*• Duration of project (in months): 2424• Number of partners: 66• Partner countries involved: The The

Netherlands, United Kingdom, ItalyNetherlands, United Kingdom, Italy• Sub-title:

““Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on IAdaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICCTT””• Project site: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/index.htmlhttp://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/index.html




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Why adaptation in ODL?• Problems with hypermedia applications:

– navigational freedom: which links are relevant (for this learner) ?

– comprehension: what has the learner seen before when reaching a certain node?

– presentation: what fits the learner’s screen? how much network bandwidth and processing power is available?




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The need for personalization in LLL




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Opportunities with adaptation

– guide learners towards relevant information (users can reach relevant information more easily and more quickly)

– make sure learners can understand the presented information

– change the presentation so that it fits the learner’s platform and environment




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Is adaptation possible?• Yes: adaptive systems exist; some

people even claim they work well.• Maybe: (how) can adaptive systems

find out what learners want/need?• Maybe not: can authors/designers

correctly interpret the system’s input to design appropriate adaptation?

Main project issue!!




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Gerhard Fischer 1 HFA Lecture, OZCHI’2000




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ADAPT goal

• to establish a European platform of standards (guidelines, platform of standards (guidelines, techniques and tools) for user modeling -based adaptability techniques and tools) for user modeling -based adaptability and adaptationand adaptation, in the sense of the new paradigm of intelligent human -computer interaction, based on the new generation of ODL tools, towards individualization of the learning process.

• aims at virtual campuses, e-learning, students tutoring and services, with special focus on adaptation to the learner's needs.




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People





Types of activities

• project meetings, • study of existing practices, • system development, • evaluation meetings, • reports, project workshop, • dissemination, testing, conferences,

workshops





Target groups

• university students from the 3 countries involved (The Netherlands, Italy and United Kingdom) and others,

• teaching staff from the institutions participating in the project and outside,

• researchers in these disciplines, • the larger research community, • the standards community





Evaluation/ dissemination strategies

• PROJECT MONITORING • EVALUATION STRATEGIES• DISSEMINATION IN THE

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND BEYOND





PROJECT MONITORING

• Progress is monitored by the project leader during the whole duration of the project.





EVALUATION STRATEGIES• self-evaluation and distribution of own results,

partner cross-evaluation, • peer evaluation, • user feedback (from students and course developers), • external experts, opinion exchange, written

evaluations, suitability evaluation, using both empirical methods (i.e., user testing) and inspection methods (e.g., heuristic evaluation) and

• finally an overall achievement test and evaluation.





DISSEMINATION IN THE PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND BEYOND

• The initial outputs of the project will be exploited by the partners.

• The output and deliverables list itself includes dissemination of findings and products, via

• international conferences and workshops, • Internet publication (on-line dissemination of

project results and deliverables) and • contacting the IEEE LTTF LTSC standard

committee.





Outcome of the project• The project’s main outcome is to significantly

contribute not only towards standardization of standardization of the new generation of ODL adaptation the new generation of ODL adaptation techniques and toolstechniques and tools, but also to provide alternate styles of teaching and learningalternate styles of teaching and learning, optimally suited for ODL or a combination of ODL and traditional classroom teaching.





Products and outputs• a set of relevant good practices of adaptation techniques for

education and counter-examples, • a minimal set of relevant, necessary features for adaptation

techniques in education and counter-examples, • research of integration of adaptive hypermedia elements into

existing learning environments, • reports, both internal and external (conferences, workshops, etc.), • a sample authoring system for adaptive techniques in education,

one (or more) training system(s) based on the minimal set of relevant adaptive features,

• evaluation, dissemination and promotion of results.





Methods to produce outputs• R1: a set of relevant good practices of (user modelling based)

adaptation techniques for education, based on current technology: • TU/e, MP, UT, USH and UN will participate towards this output.

All institutions have already a lot of experience with adaptation and adaptability. – opinion exchange, web forum for collecting and agreeing upon the initial

starting point data – to organize ideas, writing some collaborative papers for international

conferences – Ulterior discussions, implementations, testing and evaluation will refine

this result.





ADAPT Papers

• http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/papers/http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/papers/





We are here

background study

system development

testing & 2nd prototype

final test





Interesting information• IFETS Discussion: http://ifets.ieee.org/• 4000 people subscribed to IFETS discussion list:

regular discussions on topics related to educational technology

• 14 - 25 July 200314 - 25 July 2003• Alexandra Cristea will moderate a discussion on:• adaptive (andadaptive (and adaptable)adaptable) hypermedia applied in hypermedia applied in

education, at the moment, from an authoringeducation, at the moment, from an authoring point point of view.of view.You’re all invited to participate!!You’re all invited to participate!!

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