This document discusses different styles of adaptive learning designs, including book, hypertext, domain model, adaptation model styles. It explains that adaptive learning designs connect resources and concepts to adaptation rules to provide a logical structure for a didactic approach. The design determines the educational logic and possible learning paths in an adaptive course through the relationships between concepts and the application of adaptation rules.

1. Adaptive Learning Designs
By Christian Glahn
Open Universiteit Nederland
Within the Grapple project
http://www.grapple-project.org
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2. Adaptive Learning Designs
Adaptation strategies for units of learning (UoL)
• Collection of course concepts
• Collection of resources
• Collection of adaptation rules
• Adaptation model connects adaptation rules and
course concepts into a strategy
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3. Adaptive Learning Designs
Adaptation strategies for units of learning (UoL)
• Collection of course concepts
• Collection of resources
• Collection of adaptation rules
• Adaptation model connects adaptation rules and
course concepts into a strategy
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4. Book Style
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5. Book Style
• Resources have a fixed sequence
• The sequence of the resources determines
the learning path
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6. Hypertext Style
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7. Hypertext Style
• Links between resources are part of the
resources
• The links between the resources determine
the possible learning path
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8. CONCEPT-BASED
ADAPTATION
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9. Domain Model Style
Planet
Star system
Planet system
Earth
Star
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10. Domain Model Style
• Resources are connected to concepts
• Relations between concepts define the
relations between the resources
Planet
• Concept relations Star system
determine the Planet system
learning path
Earth
Star
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11. PROCESS-BASED
ADAPTATION
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12. Adaptation Model Style
Prerequisite
Example of
Planet Planet
system
Star Star
Earth
system
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13. Adaptation Model Style
• Connects resources or concepts to
adaptation rules
• Provides the logical structure of a didactic
approach
Planet Planet
system
• Each resource can be
linked to many rules Earth Star Star
system
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14. Adaptation Rules
• Patterns for transitions between concepts
• Examples
– Prerequisite: one concept should be visited
before other concepts
– Example of: if a learner
has problems with Planet Planet
system
an abstract concept,
show a specialized
concept Earth Star Star
system
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15. Adaptive Learning Designs
Conclusion
• Any combination of concept- or process-
based adaptation approaches
• Define the educational logic of an adaptive
course
– Through concept relations
– Through adaptation rules
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16. Learn more about GRAPPLE on
http://www.grapple-project.org/tutorial
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