AMTES: An Adaptive Tele-education System for Pressure Ulcer Education

Pressure Ulcers (PrU) are a severe health problem to patients and a major financial burden to the national health service of the UK. The education of nurses, patients, and their careers plays a significant role in PrU prevention. Internet-based learning has offered a flexible and relatively cheap method for delivering the teaching of evidence-based practices, however, the current online education systems still lack dynamic interactivity and the provision of multimedia learning materials. Rich Internet applications (RIAs), featured as Web-based applications function as traditional desktop applications, and provide the potential for more engaging learning experiences than the current e-learning systems. This study proposes an adaptive online education system - AMTES which is powered by RIA technologies, primarily Adobe Flex. The preliminary evaluation result indicates that AMTES is capable of providing most students with appropriate multimedia course materials based on an estimation of their knowledge level by the system.