An approach to the use and automatic generation of web-based learning materials

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to the automatic generation and use of web-based learning materials (WLMs). It consists in three phases: contents creation, division and browsing. The use of XML in the creation phase allows achieving independence between contents and their presentation, in addition to contents reuse. The splitting phase is an automatic process whose output can be used as WLMs for different user interfaces. In the browsing phase, the interfaces are generated; we have implemented two: a user-adaptative interface and a non-adaptative one. The main features of our approach enables users to create learning contents without XML technical knowledge and also enables to effectively navigate the material to their needs. © Springer-Verlag 2004.