Web-Based Education for All: A Tool for Development Adaptive Courseware

Many Web-based educational applications are expected to be used by very different groups of users without the assistance of a human teacher. Accordingly there is a need for systems which can adapt to users with very different backgrounds, prior knowledge of the subject and learning goals. An electronic textbook is one of the most prominent varieties of Web-based educational systems. In this paper we describe an approach for developing adaptive electronic textbooks and present InterBook an authoring tool based on this approach which simplifies the development of adaptive electronic textbooks on the Web.