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

Author(s)
Billingsley, William
Robinson, Peter
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
"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.
Citation
Cognitive and Emotional Processes in Web-Based Education: Integrating Human Factors and Personalization, p. 229-244
ISBN
9781605663920
9781605663937
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Language
en
Publisher
Information Science Reference
Series
Advances in Web-Based Learning Series
Edition
1
Title
Intelligent Books: Combining Reactive Learning Exercises with Extensible and Adaptive Content in an Open-Access Web Application
Type of document
Book Chapter
Entity Type
Publication

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