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	8: Re: New Authoring environment (LAMS 2.4): Your input is needed! By: John Faig	In response to 1	02/14/10 08:16 PM	[ Reply \| Forward ]
Just a simple suggestion that has nothing to do with the underlying development environment... It would be great to have the ability to branch based on some student profile data. An example that comes to mind is the learning style of a student (e.g., visual, auditory, tactile). There could be three different activities based on their preferred learning styles. This may be overkill for a particular step, but very important for an assessment at the end of an activity. Posted by John Faig

	11: Re: Re: New Authoring environment (LAMS 2.4): Your input is needed! By: Ernie Ghiglione	In response to 8	02/16/10 12:28 AM	[ Reply \| Forward ]
Good point, John. Having a branching conditions based on the student's profile data is actually not hard to do... what it's very tricky is to define the student's profile We were working with a really good team of universities and research organizations in Spain on this, but unfortunately the project had funding problems and the student profiling bits in LAMS got dropped. However, these guys are still working on defining a relevant student profile that should have learning styles, accessibility and other characteristics. (See http://www.ines.org.es/flexo/ English via Google translations: http://goo.gl/DRoz) As of today, you could set a teacher choose branching activity, so the teacher can allocate students to different branches (and each branch will be according to different learning styles). Again, not automatic branching but doable. Also the other option is to use Optional Sequences, and at the beginning of Optional Sequence explain to the student which branch is for each learning style and let them choose according to what they think their best learning style would be... Again, not as cool as have this automated, but hey... Thanks, Ernie Posted by Ernie Ghiglione

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