Towards Effective Combination of Prior Knowledge and Cognitive Styles in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems

Authors

  • Freddy Mampadi University of Botswana
  • Aubrey Pheto Mokotedi University of Botswana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v7i3.2079

Keywords:

Cognitive Styles, Prior Knowledge, Learning Performance, Adaptive Hypermedia System, Holist-Serialist, e-learning

Abstract


Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Learning Systems (AEHS) have been developed and evaluated over the past decade. These AEHS tailored navigational support and presentation of content basing on either prior knowledge or cognitive styles of students separately. The empirical evaluations of the AEHS showed that, generally, there is positive improvement in the performance and perceptions of students. There is, however, a need to explore how prior knowledge and cognitive styles could be strategically combined in AEHS in order to maximize learning and comprehension of educational materials. To this end, this paper pursues this exploration by presenting results of a comparative analysis between two AEHS, one tailored to students

Author Biographies

Freddy Mampadi, University of Botswana

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science

Aubrey Pheto Mokotedi, University of Botswana

Lecturer, Department of Computer Science

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Published

2012-09-10

How to Cite

Mampadi, F., & Mokotedi, A. P. (2012). Towards Effective Combination of Prior Knowledge and Cognitive Styles in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 7(3), pp. 11–18. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v7i3.2079

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 3 (2012)

Section

Papers

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