Towards a Personalised Learning Environment

Frank Kurzel, Lecturer, School of Communication, Information and New Media, University of South Australia, Magill, SA 5072. Email: Frank.Kurzel@unisa.edu.au

Dr. Jill Slay, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, MAWSON LAKES, SA 5095, Australia.  Email: Jill.Slay@unisa.edu.au

Keywords

Instructional Design, Educational Multimedia/hypermedia, Adaptive Hypermedia, Dynamic course generation, Student profiles.

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the techniques we plan to overlay on an adaptive multimedia learning environment (AMLE) to provide alternate instructional methodologies to the learner. The system supports the WWW as its addressing space but uses the local client areas to store media items expensive in terms of delivery time. It provides link annotations in its adaptivity and employs an overlay student model with stereotyping when accessing the course content. The structure of the domain is based on concepts that can be presented in a variety of ways; multimedia players display the content on the client computer.