Supporting delivery of adaptive hypermedia

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Abstract

Although Adaptive Hypermedia (AH) can improve upon the traditional one-size-fitsall
learning approach through Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH), it still has
problems with the authoring and delivery processes that are holding back the
widespread usage of AEH. In this thesis we present the development of the Adaptive
Delivery Environment (ADE) delivery system and use the lessons learnt during its
development along with feedback from adaptation specification authors,
researchers and other evaluations to formalise a list of essential and recommended
optional features for AEH delivery engines.
In addition to this we also investigate how the powerful adaptation techniques
recommended in the above list and described in Brusilovsky and Knutov’s
taxonomies can be implemented in a way that minimises the technical knowledge of
adaptation authors needed to use these techniques. As the adaptation functionality
increases, we research how a modular framework for adaptation strategies can be
created to increase the reusability of parts of an AH system’s overall adaptation
specification. Following on from this, we investigate how reusing these modular
strategies via a pedagogically based visual editor can enable adaptation authors
without programming experience to use these powerful adaptation techniques.

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