ABSTRACT
Most e-learning systems offer the same tools and resource materials to students who are different in terms of motivations, training backgrounds, technical skills and learning objectives. Adaptive systems development is a challenge intended to improve the efficiency of these systems. This communication presents the design and implementation of an adaptive medical e-learning environment. The authors describe the MEDIDACTE architecture developed in three levels namely, the educational resource, educational project and user level. Current MEDIDACTE implementation and integration in Marseille Medical University curriculum are presented.
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Computer Literacy , Education, Distance , Education, Medical/methods , InternetABSTRACT
The World Wide Web (web) provides the same type of information to widely different users and these users must then find the information suitable for their use in the package offered. The authors present the DI2ADEM project designed to take the user into account and intended to provide this user with appropriate medical information. To do that, DI2ADEM is suggesting an adaptive hypermedia based on the management of a meta-knowledge of the user and a knowledge of the information that can be circulated. An adaptive hypermedia prototype devoted to paediatric oncology was implemented on the intranet network of a university hospital.
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Hypermedia , Information Storage and Retrieval , Medical Informatics Applications , Diffusion of Innovation , Humans , Knowledge , Medical Oncology , PediatricsABSTRACT
Web applications provide access to a tremendous amount of information: hypertext, hypermedia and on-line databases. However, since users' knowledge, motivation and goals are different, they cannot find the relevant information in the data being diffused. Giving the users applications or environments that will take their differences into account is one way of improving their access to knowledge. The authors' objective is to improve knowledge navigation by adapting users' navigation. Adaptive hypermedia is one way of returning information adapted to the user. This paper presents an adaptive hypermedia system based on user representation with the stereotype model. Both adaptive presentation and navigation techniques are also implemented. This paper focuses on the architecture of the general adaptive hypermedia system as well as adaptivity management. A-TOP, a medical adaptive hypermedia prototype implemented in a hospital intranet system, is described. Adaptive hypermedia is a preliminary approach to the vast problem of user access to knowledge. In conclusion, we hope to extend our reflections to the problems involved in access to knowledge on the World Wide Web (Web).
