e-dap: an e-learning tool for managing, distributing and capturing knowledge

The impact of the new technologies has brought on many changes in the field of on line education. The spectacular development of the Internet provides motivation for studying the impact of new technologies on a natural area of education like e-learning. In this paper, we introduce e-dap which is an e-learning author tool implemented using only software under open source agreement with different usability aspects of adaptivity. Then, access to the tool is based on Web technology with a system of access keys which distinguishes between different user profiles. With this aim in mind, e-dap measures the level of each students´ progress checking their test marks statistics and as a result, the difficulty level for the next questions changes on real-time. Conclusions and on going work deals with allowing access to e-dap from a characteristic m-learning framework using new wireless communications interface methods like PDA´s or screen mobile phones.