The New Trends in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems

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Somyurek S.

INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN OPEN AND DISTRIBUTED LEARNING, vol.16, no.1, pp.221-241, 2015 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 16 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2015
  • Doi Number: 10.19173/irrodl.v16i1.1946
  • Journal Name: INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH IN OPEN AND DISTRIBUTED LEARNING
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.221-241
  • Keywords: Adaptive educational hypermedia systems, new trends, content analysis, distance education, SEMANTIC-WEB, LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, NAVIGATION SUPPORT, KNOWLEDGE, ADAPTATION, ONLINE, MODEL, STYLES, DESIGN, USAGE
  • Gazi University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

This paper aims to give a general review of existing literature on adaptive educational hypermedia systems and to reveal technological trends and approaches within these studies. Fifty-six studies conducted between 2002 and 2012 were examined, to identify prominent themes and approaches. According to the content analysis, the new technological trends and approaches were grouped into seven categories: standardization, semantic web, modular frameworks, data mining, machine learning techniques, social web, and device adaptation. Furthermore, four challenges are suggested as explanation why adaptive systems are still not used on a large scale: inter-operability, open corpus knowledge, usage across a variety of delivery devices, and the design of meta-adaptive systems.