Adaptive Book Project

See Adaptive Book 2.0 - Classroom Salon

HP Technology for Teaching Grant Website

Project Description
The purpose of this project is to create a platform for personalizing XML based digital textbooks and creating an environment for collaboration. Adaptive Book will collect interactive data, analyze and predict best practices among its users. The Tablet PC version of Adaptive book allows users create, organize and share pen based and audio annotations.

Technical Details
Adaptive book is a thin client program written in C#/.net for windows 2000 and higher and the Table PC version is developed with Pen SDK. Any IMS/SCORM package can be imported into the Adaptive Book.

Videos
Here is another video about adaptive book

Another Adaptive Book Demo from Thompson Publishers

System Requirements:

• Windows XP Tablet Edition, Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2), or Windows XP.
• Tablet PC, Desktop, Notebook, or Laptop running the above operating system.
• 2 Megabytes (MB) of disk space with sufficient permission to install programs.
• Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.0 installed.

Download and Installtion Instructions (available soon):

• Download Adaptive Book Thin client (available soon) from www.textcentric.com.
• Download a content package (available soon) from Adaptive Content Repository
• Import package into Adaptive Book and open the book
• See Adaptive Book User Manual for more instructions

CMU Researchers

• Ananda Gunawardena
• Amit Agarwal
• Dan Petty
• Dan Horbatt
• Neema Moravej
• Rafael Toledo
• Victor Adamchik

Demos

Thomson Brooks Cole Publishing

Carnegie Mellon - HCI _ Graduate Project - Digital Review Sheet - Fall 2002 (see Video) (lead: Neema Moravej)

Adaptive Book in the News

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Adaptive Book based Text Books

Linear Algebra - An interactive Approach - by Jain and Gunawardena	Key Press publishing	Key Press publishing	Oreilly Publishing*	Addison Wesley Publishing*
Springer-Verlag and Key College Publishing	China-Pub	Wiley Publishing*	Organic Chemistry Image missing Thomson/Brooks Cole Publishing*

* Available only for Adaptive Book research projects

Research Projects

• CMU- Application of Document Similarity Algorithms to Adaptive Book Markups
• Carnegie Mellon - HCI _ Graduate Project - Digital Review Sheet - Fall 2002 (see Video) (lead: Neema Moravej)
• Carnegie Mellon - HCI     Graduate Project - Redesign of the user interface - Fall 2003 (lead: Jina Huh)
• Carnegie Mellon - HCI - Undergraduate Senior Project - Design of the Markup Manager - Spring 2004 (lead: Rafael Toledo)
• CMU- Application of Document Similarity Algorithms to Adaptive Book Markups
• CMU - Use of Clustering Algorithms for Markup classifications
• CMU - Review Sheets for Electronic textbooks
• San Jose State University - Design of a Markup Repository  Fall 2003 (contact: Malu Roldan)
• San Jose State University - A Tablet PC based Conference Note Taker-Spring 2004 (contact: Malu Roldan)

News

• Adaptive Book/Tablet PC project wins Microsoft Research Tablet PC grant in collaboration with Grove City College - March 2006
• see poster
• Carnegie Mellon Adaptive Book/Tablet PC project wins HP Technology for Teaching "leadership" Award - 2005
• 2005 Leadership grants recipients
• Ellis School Students Replace Textbooks with Tablet PC's
• Carnegie Mellon Adaptive Book/Tablet PC project wins HP Technology for Teaching Grant-2004
• Carnegie Mellon-San Jose State University Mobility Grant Project uses Adaptive Book on Tablet PC
• Adaptive Book Workshop at International Conference Technology in Collegiate Math
• Adaptive Book on Tablet PC Demonstration/workshop at Three Rivers Educational Technology Symposium

Project Name	Collaborators	Project Summary	Project Web Site
AB-UTOnline*	University of Texas - Michael Anderson, CMU/TextCentric - Gunawardena and Freedman	The goal of this project is to provide distance learning students with an affordable and effective etext solution	http://www.telecampus.utsystem.edu/
AB-San Jose State University	San Jose State University - Malu Roldan CMU - Gunawardena	The goal of this project is to use the Adaptive Book software in tablet PC in business courses offered by SJSU.	Adaptive Book project site
AB-Key Press	Key Press- Karen Coe CMU - Ananda Gunawardena TextCentric - Gordon Freedman	The goal of this project is to use Adaptive book software to deliver secure and effective electronic version of the Key Press textbook - Discover Algebra	www.keypress.com Discover Algebra - Adaptive Book
AB-CLOR (Customized Learning Object Repository)	Ananda Gunawardena and Victor Adamchik (Carnegie Mellon University)	The goal of this project is to create a reusable adaptive learning objects repository	CLOR Project Web Site
AB-Ellis Tablet PC Pilot	Ellis School - Russ Schopper(Math teacher), Mark Walker,  Cara Laroche,(Headof Math Dept) Dr Mary Grant (head of School)	The goal of this project is to study the use of Tablet PC usage among Ellis Students in 8^th grade Geometry	Ellis Tablet PC Project Site
AB-Mt Lebanon High School Pilot	MTLB - Jonathan Ptachcinski, Aillen Owens, CMU- Gunawardena, Aaron Kao	This pilot will study the use of Tablet PC and Adaptive book in Organic Chemistry	MTLB Project Website

•  Funding
• Microsoft University Relations (Equipment funding)
• Microsoft Research
• HP/Compaq
• National Science Foundation (NSF-ITR)
• TextCentric, Inc

• Adaptive Book Student Comments

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Last updated April 10, 2009

Please send corrections to Ananda Gunawardena, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. guna@cs.cmu.edu