ADAPT "Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT"

1. ADAPT"Adaptivity and adaptability in ODL based on ICT" Alexandra Cristea a.i.cristea@tue.nl http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/ CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

2. 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!! CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

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

4. Why adaptation in ODL? • Problems with hypermedia applications: • navigational freedom: which links arerelevant (for this learner) ? • comprehension: what has the learner seenbefore when reaching a certain node? • presentation: what fits the learner’s screen?how much network bandwidth andprocessing power is available? CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

5. The need for personalization in LLL CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

6. Opportunities with adaptation • guide learners towards relevant information(users can reach relevant information moreeasily and more quickly) • make sure learners can understand thepresented information • change the presentation so that it fits the learner’s platform and environment CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

7. Main project issue!! Is adaptation possible? • Yes: adaptive systems exist; somepeople even claim they work well. • Maybe: (how) can adaptivesystems find out what learners want/need? • Maybe not: can authors/designerscorrectly interpret the system’sinput to design appropriateadaptation? CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

8. Gerhard Fischer 1 HFA Lecture, OZCHI’2000 CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

9. ADAPT goal • to 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. CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

10. People CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

11. Types of activities • project meetings, • study of existing practices, • system development, • evaluation meetings, • reports, project workshop, • dissemination, testing, conferences, workshops CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

12. 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 CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

13. Evaluation/ dissemination strategies • PROJECT MONITORING • EVALUATION STRATEGIES • DISSEMINATION IN THE PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES AND BEYOND CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

14. PROJECT MONITORING • Progress is monitored by the project leader during the whole duration of the project. CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

15. 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. CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

16. 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. CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

17. Outcome of the project • The 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. CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

18. 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. CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

19. 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. CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

20. ADAPT Papers • http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~alex/HTML/Minerva/papers/ CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

21. We are here background study system development testing & 2nd prototype final test CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece

22. Interesting information • IFETS Discussion: http://ifets.ieee.org/ • 4000 people subscribed to IFETS discussion list: regular discussions on topics related to educationaltechnology • 14 - 25 July 2003 • Alexandra Cristea will moderate a discussion on: • adaptive (andadaptable)hypermedia applied in education, at the moment, from an authoringpoint of view.You’re all invited to participate!! CEDEFOP workshop: Policy, Practice, Partnership: Getting to Work on Lifelong Learning, Thessaloniki, Greece