PCML: A pedagogy-oriented content markup language

Abstract

Online learning requires learning material to be made available in a suitable manner over a network. Content Management System (CMS) [1] helps in making the learning materials organized and accessible in some intelligent fashion online. Content creation for a CMS requires two roles of people, teacher and content developer. Content developer interacts with teacher for getting content. Content developer then formats and places content into a CMS. This interaction between teacher and content developer is manual and depends on their personal experience. Pedagogy-oriented Content Markup Language (PCML) is an effort to automate this interaction between teacher and content developer. PCML defines a set of tags, for tagging content, based on the pedagogic role of a particular part of content. Content developer can then use this tagged content (developed by teacher) to develop contents for a specific Content Management System. It also addresses many other issues in content development like reusability, personalization and minimal loss of information. © 2007 Springer.