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ADAPT
"Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT"
Alexandra Cristea
a.i.cristea@tue.nl
http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/
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Project data at a glance
Goal
People
Types of activities
Evaluation/ dissemination strategies
Outcome of the project
Products and outputs
Global time-table
Adapt papers
Interesting information
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Project data at a glance
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• Minerva (Socrates) project: ADAPT
• project reference number:
101144-CP-1-2002-NL-MINERVA-MPP*
• Duration of project (in months): 24
• Number of partners: 6
• Partner countries involved:
The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy
• Sub-title:
“Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT”
• Project site: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/index.html
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ADAPT goal
• to establish a European platform of standards (guidelines,
techniques and tools) for user modeling -based adaptability
and 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
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Partners in a few words
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• Rik Min & Italo De Diana, Twente - pioneers in use and research of
technology in education
• Carlo Strapparava – natural language processing
• Franca Garzotto – design patterns experience
• Hugh Davis – Microcosm (one of the few commercial hypertext systems)
• Tim Brailsford - WHURLE project: transclusion – simple adaptation user
model – creating individualized virtual docs
• Helen Ashman - hypertext & hypermedia, book on new frontiers of learning
• Paul De Bra – AHA! System, AHAM adaptive hypermedia framework
• Alexandra Cristea – LAOS adaptive authoring framework for adaptive
hypermedia; LAG the three layers of adaptation granularity; MOT System
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Types of activities
• project meetings, study of existing
practices, system development, evaluation
meetings, reports, project workshop,
dissemination, testing, conferences,
workshops
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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
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Evaluation/ dissemination strategies
• PROJECT MONITORING
• EVALUATION STRATEGIES
• DISSEMINATION IN THE
PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND
BEYOND
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PROJECT MONITORING
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• Progress is monitored by the project leader
during the whole duration of the project.
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EVALUATION STRATEGIES
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• 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.
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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.
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Outcome of the project
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• The project’s main outcome is to significantly
contribute not only towards standardization of
the new generation of ODL adaptation
techniques and tools, but also to provide
alternate styles of teaching and learning,
optimally suited for ODL or a combination of
ODL and traditional classroom teaching.
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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.
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We
were
here
background study
system development
testing & 2nd prototype
final test
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ADAPT Papers
• http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/papers/
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Interesting information
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• IFETS Discussion: http://ifets.ieee.org/
• 4000 people subscribed to IFETS discussion list:
regular discussions on topics related to educational
technology
• 14 - 25 July 2003
• Alexandra Cristea will moderate a discussion on:
• adaptive (and adaptable) hypermedia applied
in education, at the moment, from an authoring
point of view.
Discussion took place!!:
• http://ifets.ieee.org/discussions/discuss_july2003.html
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We
are
here
eindhoven university of technology
background study
system development
testing & 2nd prototype
final test
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ADAPT System developments
http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~acristea/HTML/Minerva/systems/
Here you can try out, online or by downloading, the different
systems created or developed within the ADAPT project.
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Updated Interesting information
eindhoven university of technology
• announcing:
• The First International Workshop on Authoring of
Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia:
• http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2004/Innsbruck/wbe-specsess-cristea.htm
• A special session at the IASTED International
Conference on Web-based Education, WBE 2004
• February 16-18, 2004, Innsbruck, Austria
• You’re all invited to participate!!
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