Abstract:
Hypermedia systems give freedom of navigation to the users but majority of them
give same view to all of them. In this regard, adaptive hypermedia provides solution
to this problem through personalisation. E-learning can also be made effective by
adapting the needs and background of learners.
PAHMS (pedagogical adaptive
hypermedia based educational system for mathematics at secondary level) provides
adaptive presentation of content and adaptive navigation by adapting the preferences
and educational background of learners. It also provides the facility of adaptive
peer’s searching. In this way, it reduces the cognitive overload of learners and
prevent them being lost in hyperspace of the system.
This thesis describes the
development of PAHMS.
This system provides pedagogy of mathematics following curriculum designed
by Ministry of Education, Pakistan to both in-service and student teachers. Pedagogy
comprises of application of famous teaching methods in different branches of
mathematics with examples. It also describes complete procedures along with merits
and demerits of these methods.
E-learning objects including instructional, collaborative and assessment
objects for the pedagogy have been developed as well.
Effectiveness of PAHMS has been ascertained through survey research
conducted from the teachers of mathematics at secondary level. Majority of them
gave positive response about the system.
