Workshop "Crafting didactic materials based on IMS LD:
Learning technologies provides a wide range of new opportunities for instructional reusability and personalized learning, two basic features needed to face the challenges of the current information society. But those opportunities can not be effectively deployed if there are not available authoring tools to create didactic materials able to support those features and proper environments for their deployment. Nowadays there is important number of research devoted to IMS LD but the focus of this workshop is to present and debate how this specification can be put effectively into practice.
The didactic material creation is a time-consuming, complex and intensive process. This creation process is composed by a set of phases: analysis of requirements, design, development, implementation and evaluation and they can be seen as the different states of material’s life-cycle. Each of theses phases needs a special support and in this workshop we will focus on analysing some issues related to the development and deployment, solutions to solve them and tools or frameworks to support of these two stages of didactic materials.
This is a list of some of main topics to address in the workshop.
- How to extend the current authoring tool’s target audience?
- How development methods and their implementations can help to guide creators solving issues arose during development?
- How to automatically or semi-automatically provide materials with appropriated semantic annotations?
- How to control the quality and usability of didactic materials within their development and deployment?
If you think your research interests fall within the scope of this workshop, we will like to know what you do and your contributions will be welcome.
Paper submission: February 29, 2008
Notification of acceptance: March 5, 2008
Copyright form submission: March 15, 2008
Final camera-ready manuscript: March 30, 2008
Author registration deadline April 15, 2008
Workshop session at ICALT08. July 3th, 2008 (Morning session)