Authoring of Adaptive (and Adaptable) Educational Hypermedia A3EH Course ; day1 practical part

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Authoring of Adaptive (and Adaptable) Educational
Hypermedia A3EH Course day1 practical part

• Dr. Alexandra Cristea
• a.i.cristea_at_tue.nl
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/alex/

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Outline practical tasks

• You will mainly work with 3 online systems
• Authoring system MOT for creation of adaptive
  courses
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/MOT03/TeachersSite-html/Ye
  s.html
• Username
• Password
• Delivery System AHA! for visualization of
  adaptive courses
• http//wwwis8090/ahamot/
• Conversion system MOT2AHA for converting between
  the two
• Last 3 at http//wwwis8090/ahamot/author/
• Username
• Password
• You will answer a set of questionnaires
• optionally with 3 proceedings of the A3EH
  workshop series
• A3EH 1 http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/WBE/
• A3EH 2 http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/AH04/pap
  ers/AAAEH-proceedings_1-11newest.pdf
• A3EH 3 http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/AAAEH05/
  AIED2005.htm

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MOT

• pronounced moh like the French word for word
• My Online Teacher
• Is an authoring system for creation of adaptive
  and adaptable (educational) hypermedia, based on
  the LAOS and LAG models.

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Papers on MOT

• implementation papers
• first (educational) MOT paper (ITCC'03)
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/HTML/Minerva/pap
  ers/ITCC03-cristea-mooij.doc
• MOT automatic linking paper (ITC'03)
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/HTML/Minerva/pap
  ers/ITC03-cristea-mooij.doc
• MOT evaluation papers
• URD evaluation (CATE'03)
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/HTML/Minerva/pap
  ers/CATE-cristea-mooij.doc
• Student evaluations (SAC04, ATL journal 04)
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/HTML/Minerva/pap
  ers/CristeaSAC04CameraReadyLast2give.doc
• http//www.actapress.com/onlinejournals/208vol1,2
  02004/issue_2/208-0805.pdf

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Steps to MOT system usage

• Try-out steps
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/HTML/USI/MOT/hel
  p/steps2MOTsystemUsage.txt
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/mot.html
• MOT user guide
• MOT generalities installation
• MOT known bugs

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MOT system components

• An interface for creation of content
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/mot.html
• Creates Conceptmaps and Lessons
• An interface to upload adaptive strategies
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl8090/ahamot/author/AMt/AMt
  .html
• Adaptive strategies are created as text documents
  in the latest version (the old interface is
  incompatible)

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1. Content creation in MOT

• Conceptmaps
• Concept maps (with attributes)
• Represent the domain model (e.g., of the course)
• Book-like hierarchical structures
• Contain the links to the actual resources (via
  attributes)
• Allow also non-hierarchical links (relatedness
  links)
• Order of concepts or attributes of (almost) no
  importance

see also MOT Glossary
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1. Content creation in MOT

• Lessons
• Concept maps (with attributes)
• Represent the goal and constraints model
• e.g., represent the pedagogical view on the
  course
• A filtered (ordered, weighted and labeled)
  version of the Conceptmaps, with pointers to the
  original content

see also MOT Glossary
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1. Content creation in MOT Conceptmaps
see also MOT Glossary
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author username
Domain maps
the authors own maps
other authors maps
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MOT Conceptmap

• Consists of a hierarchy of concepts and their
  attributes

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Conceptmap name
Concept hierarchy
Current concept
attributes of the current concept
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Concept attributes in the Conceptmap

• Should contain ONLY domain-related content
• So no prerequisites, no pedagogic information

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Concept attribute creation
concept attribute
Current concept
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Editing an attribute

• text input window in the left hand panel
• cut paste any type of text you wish,
• including (X)HTML/ XML !!
• Condition you are the author of this Conceptmap.

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Adding children concepts
Adding more attributes
Adding Relatedness relations
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Checking if you know how to create DM

• To check if you know how to create Conceptmaps of
  the Domain Model in MOT, you should try Testing
  Part 1 in
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/HTML/USI/MOT/hel
  p/tasksMOTtesting.doc

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1. Content creation in MOT Lessons

• Concept maps (with attributes)
• Represent the goal and constraints model
• e.g., represent the pedagogical view on the
  course
• A filtered (ordered, weighted and labeled)
  version of the Conceptmaps, with pointers to the
  original content
• The order is interpreted as order in which the
  contents (concepts) should be seen
• The labels give qualitative information about the
  contents
• The weights give quantitative information about
  the contents
• Weights and labels are only allowed for groups of
  concepts connected with an OR, to inform about
  the comparative desirability of the list of
  concepts. (if concepts are connected with an AND,
  they are interpreted as equally desirable)

see also MOT Glossary
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Lessons by the current author
Lessons by other authors
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Weights of sublesson
Labels of sublesson
Ordering of lessons
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Group alternatives
Group of Sub- lessons
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Changing sub-lesson order
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Changing weights labels for sublessons
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Note

• The meaning of the weights labels is given by
  the adaptation strategy!

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Checking if you know how to create GM

• To check if you know how to create Lessons of the
  Goal and Constraints Model in MOT, you should try
  Testing Part 2 in
• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/HTML/USI/MOT/hel
  p/tasksMOTtesting.doc

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Bugs known problems for MOT

• If you use html or other tags with MOT, then the
  lesson view might behave irregularly (because the
  teacher view truncates the text).
• The solution is NOT to have html tags in the
  first 30 characters of the text (or to close them
  within the first 30 chars).

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• Any questions?

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MOT terms glossary

• http//wwwis.win.tue.nl/acristea/HTML/USI/MOT/hel
  p/MOTterms-glossary.txt

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MOT Glossary extract

• adaptation assembly language this language is
  the basis of adaptive hypermedia adaptation. It
  consists of IT-THEN constructs.
• adaptation strategy adaptation strategies are
  equivalent to small programs telling the
  inference engine how to adapt to the student's
  needs. These strategies are written in MOT-ADAPT,
  in a special language developed, called
  adaptation language, or in adaptation assembly
  language. See adaptation language and adaptation
  assembly language.
• adaptation language the adaptation language is a
  language for creating adaptation strategies. It
  borrows some language constructs from other
  programming languages, but also offers some
  structure dependent constructs, that use the MOT
  concept domain hierarchy. See also, for the
  actual programming constructs and grammar, the
  document LAGgrammar.doc

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MOT Glossary extract

• adaptation map all the information about the
  actual dynamics of the system is contained in the
  adaptation map. In MOT, the adaptation map is
  represented by an instantiated adaptation
  strategy.
• adaptation model the adaptation model in MOT is
  based on the LAOS model. This model is also
  called the LAG model. The adaptation model is
  instantiated in the adaptation map. The
  instantiation takes place by creating adaptation
  strategies with the help of adaptation language.
• AM same as adaptation map.

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MOT Glossary extract

• concept a concept in MOT is built of a
  collection of attributes. A concept can have
  sub-concepts, if it is part of a hierarchy
  (hierarchical relation). A concept can belong to
  a domain model, a lesson model, a user model and
  a presentation model. A concept is instantiated
  in a concept instance.
• Conceptmap This is a historical name for the
  domain map. See domain map.
• concept map All the information in MOT is
  structured in concept maps. These are graph
  instances with nodes and links between them. Most
  links in MOT are directional. The most frequently
  used link type in concept maps in MOT is the
  hierarchical link type. See also Concept,
  Conceptmap.

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MOT Glossary extract

• domain concept map same as domain map.
• domain map The domain map is a concept map
  containing all the nodes, links and structures
  that correspond to the domain model. It is an
  instantiation of the domain model. Moreover, the
  domain map in MOT also links to the actual
  resources of the course.
• domain model the domain model in MOT is based on
  the LAOS model. The domain model in MOT is
  instantiated in the domain map. See also
  DefinitionsLAOS.doc for the same item.

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MOT Glossary extract

• GM same as goal and constraints map.
• goal and constraints model the LAOS goal and
  constraints model is represented in MOT by the
  lesson model, and instantiated in the lesson
  maps. See also DefinitionsLAOS.doc for the same
  item.

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MOT Glossary extract

• LAG model this is the 3-layered model of
  adaptation in LAOS. It is built of adaptation
  strategies, adaptation language and adaptation
  assembly language.
• LAOS model the LAOS model is the theoretical
  framework of the MOT system. MOT doesn't
  implement at present the whole LAOS model. See
  also DefinitionsLAOS.doc for the same item.

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MOT Glossary extract

• lesson same as lesson map.
• lesson map the lesson map is an instantiation of
  the lesson model. The lesson map in MOT is a
  concept map containing all the nodes, attributes,
  links and structures that correspond to the
  pedagogical model. If the aim is not at
  education, than it contains goal related
  information and linking. Relations such as
  prerequisites appear in the lesson map. The
  lesson map will in future contain also attributes
  allowing narrative smoothing.
• lesson model the lesson model is a goal and
  constraints model for educational purposes. It
  can, however, be streched for extended usage. LM
  same as lesson map.

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MOT Glossary extract

• MOTadapt same as MOT-ADAPT.
• MOT-ADAPT This is actually a part of MOT, but it
  was developed later, and therefore has a
  different name for distinction. It refers only to
  the authoring of the adaptive strategies, based
  on adaptation language and adaptation assembly
  language.
• MOT My Online Teacher, pronounced "moh" like the
  French word for "word". It is an Authoring System
  for (Educational) Adaptive Hypermedia. It is
  built in Perl and works with MySQL databases.
  pedagogic strategy this is an adaptation
  strategy with pedagogical purpose. See also
  adaptation strategy.

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MOT Glossary extract

• presentation map the presentation map is an
  instantiation of the presentation model. The
  presentation map contains all the nodes,
  attributes, links and structures populated with
  the information that corresponds to the
  presentation on the screen. Attributes about the
  color of the background or forground, booleans
  about if something is presented or not, display
  dependent attributes are all in this map. MOT's
  presentation map will soon be available. At the
  moment, MOT features only two types of
  presentations teacher view and student view.
• presentation model this model is based on the
  LAOS model. See also DefinitionsLAOS.doc for the
  same item.

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MOT Glossary extract

• UM same as user map.
• user map the user map is an instantiation of the
  user model. The presentation map contains all the
  nodes, attributes, links and structures populated
  with the information that corresponds to the
  user. Such information can be user knowledge,
  preferences, learning style, but also access of
  different concepts in the domain maps or lesson
  maps, etc. This feature is not present in the
  current version of MOT.
• user model this model is based on the LAOS
  model. See also DefinitionsLAOS.doc for the same
  item.

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• Any questions?