Authoring and Management Tools for Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems: the AHA! case study

Creating and maintaining adaptive educational applications is a hard work for teachers and developers. In order to help the author to perform these tasks the e-learning systems must provide authoring and management tools. In this chapter we are going to describe several useful tools for working with adaptive educational hypermedia systems, concretely with the AHA! system. AHA! is an well-known open source general-purpose adaptive hypermedia system. In the current AHA! distribution version there are some general adaptive author tools as Concept Editor, Graph Editor and Form Editor, all accessible through the overall Application Management Tool. There is also a specific educational tool: the Test Editor (and the associated Test Engine) and we are now developing some others such as a Course Editor and a Mining tool. In this chapter we are going to describe the AHA! system and the functionality of each of these authoring and management tools intended to help to the teachers and application developers.