Towards the Effective Use of Available Educational Resources: Designing Adaptive Hypermedia Environments for the Engineering Sciences

Adaptive Hypermedia Environments are a suitable means for developing personalized educational content that can respond to the needs of heterogeneous cohorts. These resources are increasingly built upon the Semantic Web, powered by the development and deployment of ontologies. After experimenting the automatic creation of domain ontologies from educational reference books and their use within semantic wikis, we have envisaged the development of applications that allow learners to harness the potential of semantic tools, providing recommended paths for content discovery and effective learning. These applications address issues observed within educational contexts, notably within our institution. The applications will provide learners with a supplementary resource to provide support to those seeking increasingly tailor-made learning experiences.