Courseware Authoring for Adaptive E-learning

Abstract

In recent years, the number of adaptive applications for e-learning content delivery increased immensely. Usually, such applications have own authoring tool or use external one in order to create learning materials. However, very few authors of educational content use such systems. The reason is that the tools are rather complicated and follow modern e-learning standards, which leads to a need for content authors to fill multiple metadata for theirs learning materials, that requires much time. In this paper we present an authoring tool, which is a part of a platform for building edutainment (education plus entertainment) services - ADOPTA (adaptive technology-enhanced edutainment platform). This authoring tool provides inheritance mechanisms for learning object metadata descriptions, metadata for semantic ontologies, and good integration with instructor tool for creation of adaptive courseware.