Re-engineering online learning and teaching material on-the-fly to meet the individual needs of students and teachers is now possible thanks to a complete set of tools developed under the Information Society Technologies programme-funded Trial-Solution project.
The new tools, developed by Trial-Solution can be used to slice text into a number of small items, explains project coordinator Dr Ingo Dahn from the University of Koblenz-Landau in Berlin. Students or lecturers can use the online platform to select parts of a textbook that are relevant to the subject being studied at that time. They can view the whole contents of the book, and choose the items they wish to study, or they can use the advanced search functions to find text covering a particular theme.
According to Dahn, the most obvious project results are the Trial-Solution Delivery Tool and the Trial-Solution Library of around 25,000 Learning Objects. The Delivery Tool is a Web server that delivers personalised teaching material for mathematics undergraduates. The material is delivered online on-the-fly within seconds directly to the readers desktop. XML and open e-learning specifications were used as an intermediary technology. Artificial intelligence (AI) facilitated on-the-fly composition.
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