Fawaz Ghali, Alexandra Cristea, Craig Stewart and Maurice Hendrix

Collaborative Adaptation Authoring and Social Annotation in MOT

(a.k.a MOT 2.0)

Overview

• Motivation• Challenges• MOT and MOT 2.0• Methodology• Results• Findings

Motivation

• Overcoming the challenges that exist in applying adaptive hypermedia to learning management systems with the help of Web 2.0

Challenges

• Content vs. users’ activities adaptation.

• Applying collaboration within adaptive hypermedia.

The Question

• How to harness the strengths of Web 2.0 to provide group based adaptation (authoring)?

Authoring for AH

• My Online Teacher (MOT)

http://prolearn.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/MOT/

Collaboration in MOT • Access to another author's domain

maps, as well as their lessons. • Keyword-based access to existing

domain concepts,• The possibility to copy a domain

concept across from another of the author’s own domain map(s).

Collaboration in MOT

• The possibility of linking to concepts from someone else's domain map(s).

• The possibility of creating a lesson based on someone else's domain map(s)

• The possibility of creating a lesson including other lesson(s) created by other authors.

MOT 2.0

• Collaborative authoring

• Social annotations

Common Adaptation Format

CAF 2.0

<!ELEMENT concept (name, attribute*, concept*, tag*)>

<!ELEMENT attribute (name, contents, tag*, vote? opinion*)>

<!ELEMENT tag (user, keyword) ><!ELEMENT opinion (user, feedback)><!ELEMENT lesson (link*, lesson*,

user*, group*)>

Prototype Architecture

Collaborative Adaptive Strategies

• Users in group/course who have interests in ‘AJAX’ items:

– display recommended items (content)

– display recommended authors (users)

MOT 2.0 Design Questionnaire

• 30 3rd year students ( web programming)

• Who/Where/What questions

• Compared our design with students’ answers

Results

• Consistent association between the teachers and the students

• All users are authors• Collaboration is based on rating,

tagging and content feedback.• The privileges are defined at the level of

the lesson and the link in the goal model.

Questions?