Adding client-side adaptation to the conceptual design of e-learning web applications

  • Authors:
  • Stefano Ceri;Peter Dolog;Maristella Matera;Wolfgang Nejdl

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy;L3S Research Center, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany;Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy;L3S Research Center, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we integrate WebML, a high-level model and technology for building server-side Web applications, with UML-Guide, a UML-based system that generates client-side guides for the adaptation of Web applications. The combination of the two systems is shown at work on an e-Learning scenario: WebML is the basis of the specification of a generic e-Learning system, collecting a large number of learning objects, while UML-Guide is used for building company-specific e-Learning curricula. The resulting system can be considered an "adaptive hypermedia generator" in full strength, whose potential expressive power goes beyond the experiments reported in this paper.