Wiki-based rapid prototyping for teaching-material design in e-Learning grids

  • Authors:

  • Wen-Chung Shih;Shian-Shyong Tseng;Chao-Tung Yang

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan, ROC;Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan, ROC and Department of Information Science and Applications, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan, ROC;High Performance Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Computers & Education
  • Year:
  • 2008

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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.