Abstract
Traditionally, students used their own study books that they use to write down their own notes and annotations, to summarize the material they learned, and to structure their learned knowledge. In addition, students also use these study books to review knowledge when needed, e.g., before exams and even after graduation when facing a lifework need.
This research introduces the idea of smart personalization of student study multimedia e-Notebooks according to each specific individual student's profile (student model); a tool that adds to the power of e-Learning by imitating, with much more power, those traditional study notebooks.
Smart e-NoteBook is an adaptive multimedia hyperlinked learning material management environment that supports students (or any users, such as researchers, teachers, writers, etc) during their different modes of use (study, review, or research to answer a question). Smart e-Notebook takes the instructor-provided multimedia material that is not usually prepared for a specific person (let us call it e-Notebook), and generates many personalized editions of MySmart e-NoteBooks one for each individual student that better suits his personal student model. The student model attributes that the Smart e-Notebook considers are the learning style (according to Felder-Silverman model) and the domain knowledge. To fulfil its task, Smart e-NoteBook assumes that the input e-Notebook multimedia course material submitted by the instructor is presented in the form of Learning Objects (LOs).
In this research, we investigated the specifications and features, and hence, came up with a general model for the Smart e-NoteBook environment. A general framework for such an environment is suggested, architecture is designed and a prototype is being under development.