Using Taxonomies to Support the Macro Design Process for the Production of Web Based Trainings
Key: ARS07-1
Author: Abdelhak Aqqal, Christoph Rensing, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: September 2007
Kind: In proceedings
Publisher: J. UCS
Book title: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Knowledge Management
Keywords: E-learning, Production of Web Based Training, Taxonomies, Collaborative Authoring, Knowledge Modelling, Semantic Design, Instructional design support tool.
Abstract: Today, Web Based Training (WBT) starts to be widely used as a new way of teaching. Unfortunately, this mode of teaching imposes new requirements and constraints. It has made the creation of learning materials a complex and demanding task for the instructors because it takes much time and demands a multitude of skills, in particular technical skills that must be developed and continuously updated. Hence, we propose a collaborative authoring methodology based on division of labor as a way to produce WBTs where the processes of production are clearly separated to meet the existing and needed skills of persons involved in WBT production. This paper presents an efficient method to support instructor’s guidance during the first phase of the WBT production called the Macro Design using the Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) and taxonomies we developed.

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