COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FRAMEWORKS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BETTER QUALITY ADAPTIVE HYPERMEDIA BASED EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS

Majority of the online educational systems provide same content to all the learners without considering their personal needs, goals and educational background. This makes the learning process more difficult and boring. Adaptive hypermedia can enhance the quality of these systems through personalisation or customisation. Adaptive hypermedia based educational system (AHES) builds learners’ profile as a learner model and then presents the content to them according to their preferences and previous educational record. Development of AHES is a lengthy and difficult process because it involves implementation of adaptation along with development of communication tools and digital library etc. To make this process easy, different authoring tools or frameworks are available like AHA!, InterBook, NetCoach and COFALE. In this paper, their analysis and comparison are described through which selection of a framework to develop better quality AHES becomes easy.