1. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 20031 ADAPT "Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT" Alexandra Cristea a.i.cristea@tue.nl http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/

2. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 20032 Contents Project data at a glance Goal People Types of activities Evaluation/ dissemination strategies Outcome of the project Products and outputs: Adapt papers Global time-table Interesting information!!

3. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 20033 Project data at a glance ADAPTMinerva (Socrates) project: ADAPT 101144-CP-1-2002-NL-MINERVA-MPP*project reference number: 101144-CP-1-2002-NL-MINERVA-MPP* 24Duration of project (in months): 24 6Number of partners: 6 The Netherlands, United Kingdom, ItalyPartner countries involved: The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy “Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT”Sub-title: “Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT” http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/index.htmlProject site: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/index.html

4. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 20034 Why adaptation in ODL? Problems with hypermedia applications: –navigational freedom: which links are relevant (for this learner) ? –comprehension: what has the learner seen before when reaching a certain node? –presentation: what fits the learner’s screen? how much network bandwidth and processing power is available?

5. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 20035 The need for personalization in L L L

6. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 20036 Opportunities with adaptation –guide learners towards relevant information (users can reach relevant information more easily and more quickly) –make sure learners can understand the presented information –change the presentation so that it fits the learner’s platform and environment

7. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 20037 Is adaptation possible? Yes: adaptive systems exist; some people even claim they work well. Maybe: (how) can adaptive systems find out what learners want/need? Maybe not: can authors/designers correctly interpret the system’s input to design appropriate adaptation? Main project issue!!

8. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 20038 Gerhard Fischer 1 HFA Lecture, OZCHI’2000

9. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 20039 ADAPT goal platform of standards (guidelines, techniques and tools) for user modeling -based adaptability and adaptationto establish a European platform of standards (guidelines, techniques and tools) for user modeling -based adaptability and adaptation, in the sense of the new paradigm of intelligent human -computer interaction, based on the new generation of ODL tools, towards individualization of the learning process. aims at virtual campuses, e-learning, students tutoring and services, with special focus on adaptation to the learner's needs.

10. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200310 People

11. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200311 Types of activities project meetings, study of existing practices, system development, evaluation meetings, reports, project workshop, dissemination, testing, conferences, workshops

12. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200312 Target groups university students from the 3 countries involved (The Netherlands, Italy and United Kingdom) and others, teaching staff from the institutions participating in the project and outside, researchers in these disciplines, the larger research community, the standards community

13. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200313 Evaluation/ dissemination strategies PROJECT MONITORING EVALUATION STRATEGIES DISSEMINATION IN THE PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND BEYOND

14. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200314 PROJECT MONITORING Progress is monitored by the project leader during the whole duration of the project.

15. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200315 EVALUATION STRATEGIES self-evaluation and distribution of own results, partner cross-evaluation, peer evaluation, user feedback (from students and course developers), external experts, opinion exchange, written evaluations, suitability evaluation, using both empirical methods (i.e., user testing) and inspection methods (e.g., heuristic evaluation) and finally an overall achievement test and evaluation.

16. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200316 DISSEMINATION IN THE PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND BEYOND The initial outputs of the project will be exploited by the partners. The output and deliverables list itself includes dissemination of findings and products, via international conferences and workshops, Internet publication (on-line dissemination of project results and deliverables) and contacting the IEEE LTTF LTSC standard committee.

17. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200317 Outcome of the project standardization of the new generation of ODL adaptation techniques and tools alternate styles of teaching and learningThe project’s main outcome is to significantly contribute not only towards standardization of the new generation of ODL adaptation techniques and tools, but also to provide alternate styles of teaching and learning, optimally suited for ODL or a combination of ODL and traditional classroom teaching.

18. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200318 Products and outputs a set of relevant good practices of adaptation techniques for education and counter-examples, a minimal set of relevant, necessary features for adaptation techniques in education and counter-examples, research of integration of adaptive hypermedia elements into existing learning environments, reports, both internal and external (conferences, workshops, etc.), a sample authoring system for adaptive techniques in education, one (or more) training system(s) based on the minimal set of relevant adaptive features, evaluation, dissemination and promotion of results.

19. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200319 Methods to produce outputs R1:a set of relevant good practices of (user modelling based) adaptation techniques for education, based on current technology: TU/e, MP, UT, USH and UN will participate towards this output. All institutions have already a lot of experience with adaptation and adaptability. –opinion exchange, web forum for collecting and agreeing upon the initial starting point data – to organize ideas, writing some collaborative papers for international conferences – Ulterior discussions, implementations, testing and evaluation will refine this result.

20. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200320 ADAPT Papers http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/papers/http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/papers/

21. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200321 We are here background study system development testing & 2 nd prototype final test

22. / department of mathematics and computer science TU/e eindhoven university of technology CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece 3 rd of June, 200322 Interesting information IFETS Discussion: http://ifets.ieee.org/ 4000 people subscribed to IFETS discussion list: regular discussions on topics related to educational technology 14 - 25 July 200314 - 25 July 2003 Alexandra Cristea will moderate a discussion on: adaptive (and adaptable) hypermedia applied in education, at the moment, from an authoring point of view. You’re all invited to participate!!adaptive (and adaptable) hypermedia applied in education, at the moment, from an authoring point of view. You’re all invited to participate!!