Paper Info
Title
Interactive Problem Solving Support in the Adaptive Educational Hypermedia System MATHEMA
Abstract
This paper describes the interactive problem solving support offered by our adaptive educational hypermedia system called MATHEMA. The general goal of the MATHEMA is the support of senior high school students or the beginners of higher education, through an interactive and constructivist environment, in learning physics (electromagnetism) individually and/or collaboratively, and to overcome their possible misconceptions and learning difficulties. Initially, a review of related work about the implemented AEHS/ITS and the didactic design principles of the MATHEMA are presented. Through the interactive problem solving, the system supports the students in solving electromagnetism problems, individually and/or collaboratively, by following an activity that is based on the experimentation with simulations, explorations, guided discovery, and collaboration didactic approaches. An experimental study with senior high school students showed that they improve their performances when following this activity. A questionnaire that we gave to the students to express their opinion about our system helped us to improve the quality of the courses.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/TLT.2009.19
Learning Technologies, IEEE Transactions
Keywords
Field
DocType
electromagnetism problem,senior high school student,collaboration didactic approach,adaptive educational hypermedia system,general goal,higher education,experimental study,interactive problem,constructivist environment,didactic design principle
Design elements and principles,Constructivism (philosophy of education),Computer aided instruction,Adaptive educational hypermedia,Learning styles,Computer science,Hypermedia,Multimedia,Interactive problem solving,Higher education
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2
2
1939-1382
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.56
23
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandros Papadimitriou181.32
Maria Grigoriadou259463.02
Georgios Gyftodimos3142.87