Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:18:27 +1000 (EST)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:18:27 +1000 (EST) From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> Subject: Re: Some questions for your to ponder
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On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, M. David Merrill wrote:
> 1. I am unaware of a general purpose adaptive authoring system that
> enables us to author materials that will automatically adapt to individual
> differences (learning styles, aptitudes, etc.). Are you aware of such a
> system? Who is working on the development of such a system? Where can we
> find additional information?
Actually we have been working on something like this here. My husband,
prof. Andrew Lian, managed to put a system like this together. It needs to
be considered that such system is never final and always
information-hungry. In this sense one can describe Andrew's work as laying
foundation for such a system rather than a model which is the "it" of
learning.
Between the administrative duties of anyone employed to do research
in Australia but actually forced to do administration, he had no time to
publish his recent work (which he has shown at the CALICO conference in
San Diego and UPenn last summer), a plan and the framework behind his
system you can find in the paper 'The secret of the Shao-lin monk' under
http://education.canberra.edu.au/~andrewl/
We work in second language education, so the model developed is taylored
to the specific requirements of this goal.
> 3. Should we, can we build an adaptive authoring system?
Yes,
> What individual difference variables should be included?
:-) all because none specifically drives the system but the flexibility
allows for all :-)
> built-into the system? Or should the system be general and allow the
> author to include those individual difference variables that he or she
> thinks are important? What are the advantages and disadvantages of having
> the individual difference variables built-in?
one advantage that comes into mind is that one does not make the learning
environment on the perception of one's own image, so to speak:-)
> 4. Learner control of many of the instructional strategy variables is one
> way to enable a system to adapt to individual differences.
but since learners know only what they know, and the system is more
powerful than learners know, the question of the feedback facilities
leaves plenty of room for imagination:-)
Ania Lian
http://education.canberra.edu.au/~andrewl/mlal2
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