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In this paper we present the continuous empirical evaluation approach, whose goal is to improve the quality of adaptive web-based courses. The adaptive-course description, along with the users features and interactions with the courses, are analyzed in order to detect concrete possible fails or lacks and to propose specific solutions and actions to be performed to improve these courses. The way it is used to evaluate existing adaptive courses is also presented.
This work has been partially supported by supported by the Spanish Inter-ministerial Commission of Science and Technology, projects TIC2001-0685-C02-01 and TIC2002-01948.
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Ortigosa, A., Carro, R.M. (2003). The Continuous Empirical Evaluation Approach: Evaluating Adaptive Web-Based Courses. In: Brusilovsky, P., Corbett, A., de Rosis, F. (eds) User Modeling 2003. UM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2702. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44963-9_22
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