Designing Adaptive and Personalized Learning Environments provides a theoretically-based yet practical guide to systematic design processes for learning environments that provide automatic customization of learning and instruction.

Acknowledgements

Section 1: Introduction and Overview

Chapter 1: Defining Adaptivity and Personalization

Chapter 2: Adaptivity and Personalization in Life-Long Learning

Chapter 3: Contexts

Section 2: Theoretical Perspectives with Example Applications

Chapter 4: Cognitive Profiling

Chapter 5: Content-Based Adaptivity and Personalization

Chapter 6: Adaptivity and Personalization in Exploration-Based Learning

Chapter 7: Adaptivity and Personalization in Mobile and Ubiquitous Settings

Section 3: Practical Perspectives with Example Applications

Chapter 8: Implementation Process of Adaptive and Personalized Learning Environments

Chapter 9: Adaptivity and Personalization of Learning in Various Contexts

Chapter 10: Reusability in Adaptive and Personalized Learning

Section 4: Validation and Future Trends

Chapter 11: Evaluation of Adaptive and Personalized Systems

Chapter 12: Future Development and Research Issues

Index

Kinshuk is Associate Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology and Full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada. He also holds the NSERC/CNRL/Xerox/McGraw Hill Industrial Research Chair for Adaptivity and Personalization in Informatics. He is founding chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technologies, and founding editor of the Journal of Educational Technology and Society and the Smart Learning Environments journal.