Authoring Tools to Specialize and Adapt Smart LOs

Abstract

The main distinguishing feature of the smart LO approach is the realization of the concept of producing and adapting the teaching content semi-automatically, or even automatically. The automation never comes for free. On the other hand, the use of the SLO design tool enables us to develop the highly reusable entities. At the development stage, for example, we are able to ensure reusability due to the use of the design paradigm known as design for and design with (see Chap. 9). In this chapter, design with reuse can be technologically interpreted as the SLO problem. As the designed SLO, in fact, is the context-driven meta-specification implementing a wide scale of learning variability, indeed there is a large space for adaptation. In the pure technological sense, the adaptation is a specific transformation process. In the case of using SLO specification, we are able to carry out adaptation through refactoring or specialization (see the discussion on the term issues in Sect. 7.2).