NDLI: Towards a Synthesis of Learning Methodologies, Learning Technologies and Software Product Lines

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chimalakonda, S. Nori, K.V.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	The tremendous potential of technology to support teaching/learning is being critically questioned today because of the significant decrease in quality of instruction and the massive effort of developing and maintaining educational technologies. In four and half years of our experience of analyzing and improving a decade long technology for adult literacy, we observed a strong need for (i) a unified modeling framework to organize instructional material in the form of data (ii) a technology platform to support the framework in (i) and an interactive environment based on the framework for both teachers and learners (iii) a methodology that accelerates the development and maintenance of educational technologies. In this paper, we briefly present our work that addresses some of the above needs through (i) GAMBLE, a unified modeling framework to improve quality of instruction by organizing instructional material in the form of data (facts, cases, rules, models-fcrm). Essentially, GAMBLE is a goal-driven model-based approach to teaching/learning based on fundamental learning methodologies (ii) We briefly discuss about our technology platform for modeling instructional material in the form of fcrm and present GURU, an integrated and interactive authoring and learning environment for both teachers and learners based on GAMBLE (iii) We expose the challenges of applying software product lines to accelerate educational technologies and suggest Lean Software Product Lines (SPLEAN) as a light-weight, integrated approach to address the scale and variety inherent in technology for education (T4E) domain. While (i) and (ii) are proposed specifically for adult literacy, we believe that they are also widely applicable to other areas like school and engineering education.
Starting Page	732
Ending Page	733
File Size	166238
Page Count	2
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467316422
DOI	10.1109/ICALT.2012.204
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-07-04
Publisher Place	Italy
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Educational technology Materials Software Data models Acceleration Cognition software product lines lean quality of instruction learning methodologies learning technologies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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