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Guiding students to the right questions: adaptive navigation support in an E‐Learning system for Java programming
Author(s) -
Hsiao I.H.,
Sosnovsky S.,
Brusilovsky P.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of computer assisted learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.583
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-2729
pISSN - 0266-4909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00365.x
Subject(s) - java , computer science , adaptive learning , multimedia , personalized learning , mathematics education , human–computer interaction , teaching method , psychology , world wide web , open learning , cooperative learning , programming language
Rapid growth of the volume of interactive questions available to the students of modern E‐Learning courses placed the problem of personalized guidance on the agenda of E‐Learning researchers. Without proper guidance, students frequently select too simple or too complicated problems and ended either bored or discouraged. This paper explores a specific personalized guidance technology known as adaptive navigation support. We developed JavaGuide, a system, which guides students to appropriate questions in a Java programming course, and investigated the effect of personalized guidance a three‐semester long classroom study. The results of this study confirm the educational and motivational effects of adaptive navigation support.