AEH: The 3 workshop of Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia

The AEH follows a successful series of workshops on Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia. This workshop focuses on models, design and authoring of AEH, on assessment of AEH, conversion between AEH and evaluation of AEH. The workshop has paper presentations, poster session and panel discussions. As you see, we have a full agenda, so don’t hesitate to join us! Introduction This workshop follows a successful series of workshops on the same topic. The current workshop focuses on the issues of design, implementation and evaluation of general Adaptive and Adaptable (Educational) Hypermedia, with special emphasis on the connection to user modelling and pedagogy. Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia has been long considered as secondary to adaptive hypermedia delivery. This task is not trivial at all. There exist some approaches to help authors to build adaptive-hypermedia-based systems, yet there is a strong need of high-level approaches, formalisms and tools that support and facilitate the description of reusable adaptive websites. Only recently have we noticed a shift in interest, as it became clearer that the implementation-oriented approach would forever keep adaptive hypermedia away from the ‘layman’ author. The creator of adaptive hypermedia cannot be expected to know all facets of this process, but can be reasonably trusted to be an expert in one of them. It is therefore necessary to research and establish the components of an adaptive hypermedia system from an authoring perspective, catering for the different author personas that are required. This type of research has proven to lead to a modular view on the adaptive hypermedia. One of these modules, which is most frequently used, is the User Model, also called Learner Model in the Educational field (or Student Model in ITS). Less frequent, but also emerging as an important module is the Pedagogical Model (this model has also different names in different implementations, too various to name here). It becomes more and more clear that for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia it is necessary to consider not only the learner’s characteristics, but also the pedagogical knowledge to deal with these characteristics. This workshop will cover all aspects of the authoring process of adaptive educational hypermedia, from design to evaluation, with special attention to Learner and Pedagogical models. Therefore, important issues to discuss are, among others: * What are the main characteristics (that should be) modelled of learners? * How can the pedagogical knowledge be formulated in a reusable manner? * How to support pedagogic scenarios? * How can we consider user cognitive styles in adaptive hypermedia? * How can we consider user learning styles in adaptive hypermedia?