My Online Teacher 2.0

This paper describes a new design of MOT, My Online Teacher, an authoring system for adaptive delivery of content, called MOT 2.0. The new design focuses on collaborative authoring and social annotation between communities of authors, as well as applying adaptivity based on users’ activities. The MOT 2.0 observes authors’ interaction patterns and suggests recommended/related materials and can recommend collaborators. Furthermore, it enables adaptive collaboration support by harnessing Web 2.0 and its characteristics (i.e., tagging, voting, commenting, and user-generated content), thus, allowing for group-based adaptation. In this way, MOT 2.0 combines the strength of Web 2.0 authoring with adaptive hypermedia –based authoring for personalization. Therefore, the paper answers the question of how to harness the strengths of Web 2.0 to provide group based adaptation for the authoring process.