Guenter Hilmer - Phd Thesis - Glamorgan Dspace - University of ...

4.6 Content space 4 HEAT
It was defined in 3.7 that the content space is not only growing in size with every
new piece of authored educational hypermedia, but that it should also provide the
following functionalities:
• The search for educational material should be fast and easy.
This demand is fulfilled by the implemented functionalities of the HEAT
content space, for example search and query functionalities based on EHP-
information (cf. section 4.8).
• The reuse of educational material should be possible.
This demand is also fulfilled by the HEAT at this point of the PhD project,
e.g. after the author has searched the content space for TLSs or EHPs he can
import specific TLSs or EHPs into his own EM and therefore reuse existing
material.
Finally, it has to be stated that several research topics concerning the content space
are out of scope for this PhD. For example, it could be investigated whether the
linking between single TLSs of an EM in the content space allows insights into
the authored material and its reusability in another EM. These topics will have to
be addressed in the future.
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