Supporting design decisions for modeling adaptation in tutoring WEB systems

Abstract

Adaptation or personalization is the key word for Educational WEB based systems. Nevertheless, the absence of a personalization model that could make possible to reason about, to support, to analyze the design of a Personalized Tutoring WEB System (PTWS), a kind of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System (AEHS), is a great inconvenience. The weakness of the existing approaches is the lack of a justifiably process or method to identify and structuralize adaptation constituents and determinants, as well as to define adaptation rules. In current research, these aspects are unclearly treated. Aiming at overcoming such weakness, this paper presents an approach of how to support design decisions for modeling Personalized Tutorial Web System. Keywords: adaptation, adaptation modeling, adaptive tutorial WEB system.