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AHA! is an adaptive hypermedia architecture used to create and manage the course content.
The Adaptive Hypermedia Architecture or AHA! [2, 4] was initially developed to create an adaptive version of a course on Hypermedia, taught at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and offered on-line to students of several Dutch and Belgian universities. Through a grant of the NLnet Foundation the adaptation engine has been extended to make it very general-purpose, and authoring tools have been developed to help course developers in the design of the conceptual structure of a course and in the management of the course content. Key characteristics of AHA! are:
The structure of every course consists of concepts, concept relationships and pages. For every page there is a corresponding concept. When a student reads a page the system will register knowledge about the concept corresponding to that page. Through knowledge propagationrelationships the page access also leads to knowledge...
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A. Cristea, D. Floes, N. Stash, and P. De Bra, “MOT meets AHA!” Proceedings of the PEG Conference, June 2003, http://www.peg2003.net/peg2003docs/cristea.doc.
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(2008). Creating Adaptive Course Texts with AHA!. In: Furht, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-78414-4_284
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