Integrating Adaptive Techniques into Virtual University Learning Environment

We describe the design and integration of adaptive techniques into a virtual university environment. It comprises a series of techniques that customizes the educational process to the learning curve of the user and pro-vides personalization features to the exchanging information flow. Its distinctive functionality is that it encompasses combined adaptation between educational material and well-known communication facilities. In fact the environment is personalized towards two directions. Firstly adaptation is performed separately per user activity and subsequently knowledge of the different levels is shared to provide further personalization globally to the environment. Time obsolescence of personalization is also used to prohibit outdated adaptation to keep loading the user profile. Finally the object-oriented methodology followed is discussed as it was considered fundamental for incremental scaling, reusability and maintenance of the environment.