Abstract

Grid computing environments with abundant resources can support innovative e-Learning applications, and are promising platforms for e-Learning. To support individualized and adaptive learning, teachers are encouraged to develop various teaching materials according to different requirements. However, traditional methodologies for designing teaching materials are time-consuming. To speed up the development process of teaching materials, our idea is to use a rapid prototyping approach which is based on automatic draft generation and Wiki-based revision. This paper presents the approach named WARP (Wiki-based Authoring by Rapid Prototyping), which is composed of five phases: (1) requirement verification, (2) query expansion, (3) teaching-material retrieval, (4) draft generation and (5) Wiki-based revision. A prototype system was implemented in grid environments. The evaluation was conducted using a two-group t-test design. Experimental results indicate that teaching materials can be rapidly generated with the proposed approach.

Citation

Shih, W.C., Tseng, S.S. & Yang, C.T. (2008). Wiki-based rapid prototyping for teaching-material design in e-Learning grids. Computers & Education, 51(3), 1037-1057. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved May 29, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/66558/.

Keywords

• Computer Assisted Instruction
• Computer Software
• Computer Software Evaluation
• Computer System Design
• e-Learning grid
• educational technology
• Individualized Instruction
• information technology
• Material Development
• rapid prototyping
• Teacher Developed Materials
• Teaching material design
• Wiki-based authoring