Seamless web-mediated training courseware design model: Innovating adaptive educational-learning systems

We present an innovative Web-mediated training system design architecture that encourages novice courseware developers to deliver their own adaptive (user-centered) educational-learning systems (AELS) by utilizing achievable and cost effective online training modules. We propose a seamless Web-mediated training system design architecture that includes a choice of intelligent agents (personal Avatars) to guide the trainee through their knowledge acquisition. We cut through the more usual information. systems (IS) development rhetoric. Instead of cloaking the courseware design process in highly technical mystery, we argue that educational technology experts should encourage non-technical developers to believe that the possibility of customizing their own Web-mediated training programs falls within their grasp. The preliminary findings from a pilot study conducted to test our AELS as an in-ho use courseware development tool indicate that it will be most s uitable for corporate and government training courseware creators.