TY - JOUR
TI - The learning facilities and adaptation techniques of the MATHEMA
AU - Papadimitriou, A.
AU - Gyftodimos, G.
AU - Grigoriadou, M.
JO - International Journal of Learner Diversity and Identities
PY - 2010
VL - 17
TODO - 1
SP - 155-172
PB - Common Ground Publishing
SN - null
TODO - 10.18848/1447-9494/cgp/v17i01/46821
TODO - null
TODO - This paper describes the learning facilities and adaptation techniques offered by the Webbased adaptive educational hypermedia system called MATHEMA. The general aim of the MATHEMA is to support senior high school learners or novices of higher education, through an interactive and constructivist educational material, in learning Physics (electromagnetism) individually and/or collaboratively, and overcoming their possible misconceptions and learning difficulties. In general, the MATHEMA is a learning system that dynamically generates courses in electromagnetism according to learners' learning goal, knowledge level on each main concept, knowledge level on each learning goal, learning style, abstract or concrete dimension of learning style, Web experience, preference for visual and/or verbal feedback, and preference for the kind of navigation. The MATHEMA supports the following adaptive and intelligent techniques: curriculum sequencing, adaptive presentation, adaptive and meta-adaptive navigation support, interactive problem solving support, and adaptive group formation and peer help. An experimental study with senior high school learners indicated that they improve their knowledge levels when studying through the MATHEMA. © Common Ground, Alexandros Papadimitriou, Georgios Gyftodimos, Maria Grigoriadou.
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