Improvement of Academic Performance of Engineering Students through an Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System (AEHS)

Abstract

This paper describes how to improve the academic performance of engineering university students through an Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System (AEHS). The psychological basis, learning styles and MOOMH methodology for the development of the system are exposed, which with its implementation achieves adaptability and works for students as an “intelligent tutor”, allowing them to guide their education as academic tutor. Not only shows its content that meets the needs of the student, but it is also represented in elements such as color adaptation, work tools and even academic recommendations based on the interactions that the user makes within the system, the system recognizes its pattern of use, and when the student is logged in again, it presents a friendlier interface that the student prefers use, it is wider in content and, above all, easy to use and understand. In addition, the AEHS allows to extend education allowing the assignment of more domain areas, in the field of engineering, that is, the SHAE can be adapted to various engineering specialties such as: industrial, software, telecommunications, mechanics and other.