Making Legacy LMS adaptable using Policy and Policy templates

Arne Koesling; Eelco Herder; Juri De Coi; Fabian Abel

Making Legacy LMS adaptable using Policy and Policy templates

Arne Koesling, Eelco Herder, Juri De Coi, Fabian Abel

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Abstract

In this paper, we discuss how users and designers of existing learning management systems (LMSs) can make use of policies to enhance adaptivity and adaptability. Many widespread LMSs currently only use limited and proprietary rule systems defining the system behaviour. Personalization of those systems is done based on those rule systems allowing only for fairly restricted adaptation rules. Policies allow for more sophisticated and flexible adaptation rules, provided by multiple stakeholders and they can be integrated into legacy systems. We present the benefits and feasibility of our ongoing approach of extending an existing LMS with policies. We will use the LMS ILIAS as a hands-on example to allow users to make use of system personalization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive System
Editors	Joachim Baumeister, Martin Atzmüller
Place of Publication	Wurzbürg
Publisher	Department of Computer Science, University of Würzburg
Pages	35-40
Volume	448
Publication status	Published - 25 Nov 2008
Event	ABIS 2008: 16th Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems - Wurzbürg, Germany Duration: 6 Oct 2008 → 8 Oct 2008

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Conference	ABIS 2008
Abbreviated title	ABIS 2008
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Wurzbürg
Period	6/10/08 → 8/10/08

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policies
learning management systems

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Making Legacy LMS adaptable using Policy and Policy templates. / Koesling, Arne; Herder, Eelco; De Coi, Juri et al.
Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive System. ed. / Joachim Baumeister; Martin Atzmüller. Vol. 448 Wurzbürg: Department of Computer Science, University of Würzburg, 2008. p. 35-40.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Article in proceeding › Academic › peer-review

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