Personal learning activity approach for developing adaptive web-based learning systems

Abstract

In recent years, researchers have attempted to develop adaptive web-based learning system to help and facilitate students' improvement of learning performance. Moreover, learning environment that involves physical hands-on experimentation and/or virtual computer-simulated experimentation related to pedagogical aspects is extremely important. Consequently, it becomes an interesting issue to develop an adaptive web-based learning system which provides suitable learning environment for individual students. In this study, we propose a set of personal learning activity rules to elicit and integrate the learning styles and learning experience provided by individual students. Based on the proposed approach, an adaptive web-based learning system was implemented on a physics lesson to investigate the effectiveness of this innovative approach. The empirical findings suggest that students who learned in adaptive web-based learning system based on the proposed approach had better learning performance than those who learned in conventional web-based learning environment.