The following paper has been accepted to iKnow 2012.

I. O'Keeffe, A. Staikopoulos, R. Rafter, E. Walsh, B. Yousuf, O. Conlan and V. Wade, Personalized Activity Based eLearning, in 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (iKnow), 2012.

Abstract:
"Personalization of the Web is attempting to ensure that media (content) is tailored to the user's personal preferences, goals and context and make their reuse easier. However, web information systems developers are increasingly seeking to apply `Web as a Platform' based approaches where web based content and web services are integrated to provide the platform and environment features which typically were offered by desktop environments and applications. Next generation Personalized Web information systems need to be capable of both dynamic personalized web media and web services to create customized experience tailored to the needs, tasks and context of the user. The goal of the research presented in this paper is to provide innovative techniques and technologies to support dynamic, integrated adaptivity and personalization of web media and services to enable rich re-purposing of existing content and web services. As part of this research, a novel architecture for the generation of Personalized Learning Activities has been developed. The
system was subsequently evaluated in the context of a Higher Education use case based on three key objectives, the investigation of the user's perception of the personalization of the activity, the clarity of the activity from a usability perspective and the user's perception of the educational benefits of the personalized activity."