An innovative e-learning platform to provide individual students with unique educational experiences tailored closely to their personal profiles, interests and needs, has been developed enabling the key goals of personalisation and adaptability to be met.
The Information Society Technologies programme-funded project ALFANET, which ended in April 2005, has also set a new benchmark for standardisation in e-learning, not just by ensuring that its system is compliant with current standards but by designing components that can interoperate between different standardised technologies. That, in-turn, will allow its Web-based platform to be integrated with other e-learning systems.
The novel concept of ALFANET is that it provides the learner with a unique e-learning experience adapted to their profile, background, interests and their evolution on the course, explains project coordinator Cristina Arana at Software AG in Spain. The key innovations include dynamic adaptation of the system, allowing it to adapt not only to a predefined set of preferences but to a wider set of characteristics as decided by the pedagogical designer.
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