Covers a range of factors that influence the design, use and adoption of personalized learning environments. This book shows how user and pedagogical considerations can be integrated into the design, development and implementation of adaptive hypermedia systems to create effective personalized learning environments.

Advances in technology are increasingly impacting the way in which curriculum is delivered and assessed. The emergence of the Internet has offered learners a new instructional delivery system that connects them with educational resources. "Advances in Web-Based Education: Personalized Learning Environments" covers a wide range of factors that influence the design, use and adoption of personalized learning environments, and it shows how user and pedagogical considerations can be integrated into the design, development and implementation of adaptive hypermedia systems to create effective personalized learning environments.

PART 1: Modelling the learner - Chapter 1: Gender differences and hypermedia navigation: Principles for adaptive hypermedia learning systems
Chapter 2: Modelling learner's cognitive abilities in the context of a Web-based learning environment
Chapter 3: Dominant meanings towards individualized Web search for learning
Chapter 4: An adaptive predictive model for student modelling
Chapter 5: Giving learners a real sense of control over adaptivity, even if they are not quite ready for it yet
PART 2: Designing instruction - Chapter 6: Building an instructional framework to support learner control in adaptive educational hypermedia systems
Chapter 7: Bridging the gap with MAID: A method for adaptive instructional design
Chapter 8: An adaptive feedback framework to support reflection, guiding and tutoring
Chapter 9: Adaptable navigation in a SCORM compliant learning module
PART 3: Authoring and exploring the content - Chapter 10: Authoring of adaptive hypermedia
Chapter 11: Authoring of adaptive hypermedia courseware using AHyCo system
Chapter 12: TEXT - COL- A tool for active reading
PART 4: Approaches to integration - Chapter 13: From non-adaptive to adaptive educational hypermedia: Theory, research, and methodological issues
Chapter 14: Contextualized learning: Supporting learning in context.