Structurization of learning/instructional design knowledge for theory-aware authoring systems

Abstract

Currently, there are little guidelines on building quality standard-compliant learning courses. Although educational theories can be guidelines, there are difficulties in the practical use. An approach to the problem is to build a theory-aware and standard-compliant authoring system based on an ontology that establishes a multi-paradigm conceptual basis for learning/instructional theories. This paper discusses the feasibility of building such an ontology, as well as the functionality of a theory-aware authoring tool based on it. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.