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A significant number of collaborative and adaptive web-based systems have been created to support distance learning in the last years. However, there is a need of formalisms to support an extensible, flexible and maintainable specification of both collaboration and adaptation issues, especially when they are combined in an integrated environment. In this paper we present a rule-based formalism for the description of adaptive collaborative web-based courses, which are dynamically generated at runtime. The course elements, including the collaboration activities, are adapted to each student’s features, preferences, behaviors and achievements, at each time. The student’s actions while collaborating can also affect the later course adaptation. This formal representation provides some advantages regarding the desired features mentioned above.
This work has been partially supported by the German DAAD and the Spanish Interministerial Commission of Sc. and Tech., projects TIC2001-0685-C02-01, TIC2002-01948
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Carro, R.M., Ortigosa, A., Schlichter, J. (2003). A Rule-Based Formalism for Describing Collaborative Adaptive Courses. In: Palade, V., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45226-3_35
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