TY - GEN
T1 - A flexible mechanism for providing adaptivity based on learning styles in learning management systems
AU - Graf, Sabine
AU - Kinshuk,
AU - Ives, Cindy
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - While today's learning management systems (LMSs) provide lot of support for teachers to assist them in holding online courses, they typically do not consider students' individual differences in the composition and structure of courses. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism for extending LMSs' functionality to provide learners with courses that fit their individual learning styles, using adaptive sorting and adaptive annotation in order to highlight the learning objects (LOs) that support students' learning process the best. The mechanism enables teachers to add adaptivity to their already existing courses, using a flexible course structure in order to avoid limiting the richness of the learning resources and materials. Besides being flexible to teachers' needs, the adaptive mechanism aims at asking teachers for as little as possible additional effort when using it, requiring teachers only to choose the corresponding type of LO when creating an LO in the authoring tool of the LMS.
AB - While today's learning management systems (LMSs) provide lot of support for teachers to assist them in holding online courses, they typically do not consider students' individual differences in the composition and structure of courses. In this paper, we introduce a mechanism for extending LMSs' functionality to provide learners with courses that fit their individual learning styles, using adaptive sorting and adaptive annotation in order to highlight the learning objects (LOs) that support students' learning process the best. The mechanism enables teachers to add adaptivity to their already existing courses, using a flexible course structure in order to avoid limiting the richness of the learning resources and materials. Besides being flexible to teachers' needs, the adaptive mechanism aims at asking teachers for as little as possible additional effort when using it, requiring teachers only to choose the corresponding type of LO when creating an LO in the authoring tool of the LMS.
KW - Adaptivity
KW - Learning management systems
KW - Learning styles
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78049278391&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICALT.2010.16
DO - 10.1109/ICALT.2010.16
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78049278391
SN - 9780769540559
T3 - Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2010
SP - 30
EP - 34
BT - Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2010
T2 - 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2010
Y2 - 5 July 2010 through 7 July 2010
ER -