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Web-based educational hypermedia

Author(s): P. De Bra Abstract: TheWeb 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, using electronic textbooks. The use of hypertext links gives the learner a lot of freedom to decide on the order in which to study the material. This leads to problems in understanding electronic textbooks, which can be solved using adaptive hypermedia methods and techniques. In this chapter we describe how the field of educational hypermedia benefits from user modeling and adaptation.We also show that the information gathered about the learners and their learning process can be used to improve the quality of electronic textbooks. 1 Introduction: For a long time the use of hypermedia in education was limited because of the need for specialized hardware/software platforms for bringing hypermedia to the end user. Some readers may remember the Plato system [1], featuring personal and group notes, threaded discussions, hyperlinks, interactive elements and games, etc. Its use was restricted to institutes equipped with special terminals, connected to large mainframe computers running the Plato environment. A more affordable but also unsuccessful attempt at bringing hypermedia and interactivity to the public was the introduction of CD-Interactive by Philips and Sony (in 1986). Many other (hypermedia) environments suitable for delivering interactive learning material have been developed but never became popular. Then, in 1989, Tim Berners Lee started developing the ideas and software for the World Wide Web. The first implementations of web servers (from CERN and NCSA, much later evolved into ... Pages: 17 Size: 1,366 kb Paper DOI: 10.2495/1-84564-152-3/01

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