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Nowadays the rapid development of computer and Internet technologies in the field of education has changed the ways of teaching and learning. The production of adaptive educational applications and systems that enrich the tutoring and learning processes with “intelligence”, in order to adapt either the learning material or the tutoring and learning processes to each individual student’s needs and abilities, offering her/him a personalized learning experience. However, building an adaptive educational environment and/or application is difficult and complex, since either technical knowledge and programming skills or the expertise of tutors are demanded. In this paper an authoring tool, which offers the instructors the possibility to create learning material and student’s profile that are technological and platform independent, is presented. The innovative operation of the presented authoring tool is based on web services and is due to the following facts: (i) the created learning content can be used by any educational application regardless of the system’s technological characteristics or programming language, (ii) the created progress profile of a student, who uses two different educational applications that call the same web services of the authoring tool, is recognized by both applications. Therefore, if the knowledge level of a student is changing during her/his interaction with the one application, then the other application will, also, recognize the updated knowledge level of the particular student.
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Papadimitriou, S., Chrysafiadi, K., Virvou, M. (2019). Authoring Technological and Platform Independent Learning Material and Student’s Progress Profile Using Web Services. In: Virvou, M., Kumeno, F., Oikonomou, K. (eds) Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: 2018. JCKBSE 2018. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97679-2_25
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