Title: An Ontology-aware Design Environment for Learning Contents

Autors: Hayashi, Y., Yamasaki, R., Ikeda, M., and Mizoguchi, R.

Reference: Proc. of Pan-Yellow-Sea International Workshop on Information Technologies for Network Era(PYIWIT'02), pp.235-242, Saga, Japan, March 7 - 8, 2002.

Abstract: It is relatively more difficult to support designing learning contents than designing physical object.
The major problem is that we don't have a framework to describe the abstract design object appropriately.
To solve the problem, we define an ontology for learning contents design and have designed and developed a design support environment: iDesigner based on it.
Laying the ontology as a basis for functionalities of {\itshape i}Designer, following two functionalities are implimented.
1) Providing designers with an environment , to facilitate designer's externalizing design issues that tend to be implicit.
2) Simulating change of understanding status of supposed learners to provide designers with information to verify the leanring content.

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