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In this paper we propose a strategy of adaptive e-learning that aims to help students overcoming the inherent difficulties of STEM-related subject matters for which they have known misconceptions. The paper reports on empirical findings derived from classroom interventions which were undertaken to investigate the impact of the proposed strategy. For each intervention, an adaptive e-course was developed and tested with encouraging results. Since the proposed strategy is descriptive in nature the paper can be used as the basis for future studies that validate it with other subject matters than those mentioned herein.
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Mavroudi, A., Hadzilacos, T., Angeli, C. (2016). An Adaptive E-Learning Strategy to Overcome the Inherent Difficulties of the Learning Content. In: Verbert, K., Sharples, M., Klobučar, T. (eds) Adaptive and Adaptable Learning. EC-TEL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45153-4_40
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