Title
EarthTutor: A Multi-Layered Approach to ITS Authoring
Abstract
This paper presents the EarthTutor authoring tool, a multi-layered system designed to remove the technical hurdles preventing teachers from having full control over the structure of their lessons, without sacrificing the power and technical flexibility required for an effective ITS implementation. EarthTutor reduces the ITS design problem to a series of related but independent layers. Each layer in the process hides the implementation details of lower layers, while providing a foundation for higher levels. This approach allows a core group of advanced authors to do the more complex authoring tasks and export their work to a wider audience of novice authors, who complete the authoring process.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
AIED
multi-layered approach,complex authoring task,core group,design problem,authoring process,process hide,earthtutor authoring tool,technical hurdle,technical flexibility,implementation detail,advanced author,system design
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Core (group theory),Multimedia
Conference
125
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0922-6389
1-58603-530-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kristen Parton1485.14
Aaron Bell200.34
Sowmya Ramachandran33411.89