Intelligent Books: Combining Reactive Learning Exercises with Extensible and Adaptive Content in an Open-Access Web Application

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Author(s): William Billingsley (University of Cambridge, UK)and Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 16
Source title: Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Web-Based Education: Integrating Human Factors and Personalization
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Constantinos Mourlas (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Nikos Tsianos (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)and Panagiotis Germanakos (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-392-0.ch013

Keywords: Cognitive Learning / Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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“Intelligent Books” are Web-based textbooks that combine computer-supported exercises with content that is both adaptive and extensible. They impose very few restrictions on the kind of exercise that can be placed within the book, and they allow students to contribute material that they have written, and to incorporate material from the Web into the book. In this chapter, the authors describe the influences that affect the design of intelligent books. These come from looking at the roles that textbooks and course notes play in education, and economic factors that affect the sustainability of intelligent books – competing for the attention of users, and ensuring that network externalities do not prevent a sufficient quantity of material from being usable within the book.

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