Providing Cognitive Scaffolding Within Computer-Supported Adaptive Learning Environment for Material Science Education

These days adaptivity is the cutting edge of modern education. Technologies are being developed rapidly and bringing new possibilities to educators. Thus, diverse types of adaptive learning environment have appeared during these last decades. Material Science and Engineering Education (MSEE) have a solid formalized foundation, which consists of standards, recommendations and clear rules. Moreover, investigators report on growing role of computer in teaching and learning in MSEE. These brings great perspectives to computer adaptive learning system based on a material science and engineering ontology. This paper aims to justify general pedagogical foundations of adaptivity and to collect requirements to a computer adaptive learning system. As an extra result we introduce the architecture of ontology-based adaptive learning system to MSEE.