The idea of adaptive hypermedia is that online content would personalize its display given information about the viewer. If (writes the author) a student displays no motivation to learn the chiaroscuro technique, then on detecting this, the system would display a Rembrandt painting, "with the hope that seeing such a great painting will motivate them." The example is a little far-fetched. But the technique is sound. The problem, notes the author, is that there is no good tool for writing adaptive hypermedia, and hence the launch of a European Community project, ADAPT, "whose main goal is to extract adaptive patterns of educational adaptive hypermedia, and to use these in authoring." Interesting. Daunting.
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