Why should we look at the authoring process in adaptive educational hypermedia design? How does detecting authoring patterns help the process? Why do we need to consider cognitive styles in adaptive hypermedia? What do these seemingly unrelated topics have in common? These and other questions were posed to the accepted paper presenters of the “First International Workshop on Authoring of Adapti...

The creation process of adaptive hypermedia is rarely evaluated. Moreover, conversion between different adaptive hypermedia systems has barely been proposed, yet alone tested in realistic settings. This paper presents the evaluation of the interoperability of two adaptive (educational) hypermedia systems, MOT and WHURLE, the one serving as authoring system, and the other as delivery system. The...

The Cultural Artefacts in Education (CAE) questionnaire is used to determine the educational values of different cultures. In this paper I examine the results for ten countries, specifically focussing on their attitudes towards adaptive hypermedia in an educational setting. These results can inform the authoring process for adaptive systems & content, with Adaptive Hypermedia systems being able...

Adaptive content selection and sequencing is recognized as among the most interesting research questions in adaptive educational hypermedia systems. In this paper, we address the adaptive content selection problem in educational hypermedia systems proposing a concrete methodology for capturing expert’s knowledge on selection of learning content following the philosophy and principles of techniq...

Teachers using an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) to create learning sessions may well experience a cognitive overload, given the twin demands of having to teach while, at the same time, being engaged in learning how to use an ITS. Dealing with the combinatorial of topics and resources required to train instructors by using an adaptive hypermedia ITS is difficult, but we propose the applicati...

This paper briefly describes the important topic of Authoring of Adaptive Hypermedia that is central to this Special Issue especially from the point of view of education, as well as the papers selected and the reason for this selection. The papers are based on selected, invited papers of the second Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Educational Hypermedia at the Adaptive Hypermedia...

This paper presents a new classification of adaptive hypermedia, starting from one of the best-known and adding other features that are relevant in adaptive hypermedia and have not been considered till now, such as: the generality degree, the hyperspace design, the educational strategies, the user’s action tracing, the maintenance, the information access, and some technical requirements. It mak...

Adaptivity is a particular functionality of hypermedia that may be applied through a variety of methods in computer-based learning environments used in educational settings, such as the flexible delivery of courses through Web-based instruction. Adaptive link annotation is a specific adaptive hypermedia technology whose aim is to help users find an appropriate path in a learning and information...

The paper describes adaptive methods developed in the area of adaptive educational hypermedia according to a simple taxonomy schema based on three dimensions: What components of the educational system are adapted? To what features of the user and the current context does the system adapt? Why does the system adapt? Based on this taxonomy several classical methods of adaptive educational hyperme...