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Interbook
tool for adaptive electronic textbooks (developed mostly at the Carnegie Mellon University):
- authoring through Microsoft Word (+conversion tools)
- domain model: concepts and prerequisite relationships
- user model: overlay model, updated through “outcome concepts” of read pages
- adaptive link annotation
- several additional tools: index, glossary, “teach me”
- a good description of Interbook:
- Interbook (development) can be tried at the following address:
- http://136.142.116.98/inter/Welcome.html
Notes:
Interbook is a tool for what Brusilovsky calls “adaptive electronic textbooks”. The meaning of this is that the basis is a hierarchically structured textbook with chapters, sections, subsections and pages, in which adaptive link annotation is used to guide the student through the learning material. The textbooks are hypertexts in the sense that there are also links in the pages.
The domain model in Interbook consists of concepts to be learned, and prerequisite relationships between these concepts.
When the student studies pages the knowledge is increased. This is represented through an overlay model.
Interbook offers several tools to help users study the course material. These include an index of terms, a glossary and tools to help students find the material needed to study a concept. We briefly show the different tools through some screen shots.
The Interbook system is available on-line, both in a “production” and a “development” version, from the University of Pittsburgh.
Most of the Interbook development was done at Carnegie Mellon University, also in Pittsburgh.