The Adaptive eLearning Platform (AeLP) is a complete, Web based solution for authoring Adaptive Tutorials, deploying them via our LMS, monitoring learner progress, and analyzing behavior.

An Adaptive Tutorial is a tutorial that intelligently adapts to student interaction and knowledge level. Adaptive Tutorials are based on highly interactive and visually engaging simulations called “Virtual Apparatus.” Software Developers/Designers are responsible for creating these simulations, while teachers create the educational and pedagogical aspects of the tutorial. This includes writing questions, specifying adaptive feedback for anticipated student mistakes, and outlining the sequence of questions.

Virtual Apparatuses (VA) are visually engaging interactive simulations that form the basis on which Adaptive Tutorials are authored, and can be repurposed and reused in different learning contexts. They are different from Learning Objects in the fact that they do not contain the pedagogy or educational content, but rather are simply the equivalent of real world laboratory apparatus. According to Virtual Apparatus Framework, VA’s are the presentational layer of the educational software and are constructed with a special Programming Interface that enables teachers to define educational activities that will ask the students to interact with the Virtual Apparatus. We are collaborating with Dror Ben-Naim, Michael Bain and Nadine Marcus. They designed the AeLP, Adaptive Tutorial and Virtual Apparatus at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.