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In e-learning systems, learners usually does not visit educational materials linearly, but have access to different materials via a number of links to other lessons or teaching units. In modern Web-based learning environments, the authors avoid creation of static learning material that is presented to the learner in a linear way, due to the large amount of interdependences and conditional links between the various pages. Often, authors create multiple versions of learning resources so the system can propose to the learner the appropriate one. This leads to the learning concept known as content adaptation. The order of visiting educational material can be influenced by manipulating the hypertext links. This process is called link adaptation. The most popular content and link adaptation techniques used in e-learning environments are presented in this chapter. The chapter also covers basic principles of adaptive educational hypermedia systems.
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Klašnja-Milićević, A., Vesin, B., Ivanović, M., Budimac, Z., Jain, L.C. (2017). Adaptation in E-Learning Environments. In: E-Learning Systems. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41163-7_4
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