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

1.5 Approach 1 INTRODUCTION
results in additional work for them it should be as easy as possible. To guarantee
the quality of the tagging a quality assurance process should be implemented.
Once the information is properly tagged, there must be some tools to provide the
author with the search, find and interchange functionality. The authoring process
itself should be easy and based on TLSs. Then, the educational content must be
delivered to the student. This delivery process should be done by the system to
facilitate the author’s work.
Another aspect that has to be addressed is how teachers and students can com-
municate with each other or how adaptation of the educational material to the
student’s preferences can be realised.
Altogether, several issues have been named so far that have to be considered in
the framework for this project, even if they are not implemented into the prototype
application.
1.5 Approach
To address the problem areas of this PhD project, the ongoing research in this field
has to be analysed. This literature review will be introduced in chapter 2. Based
on this review, a specialised framework for the separation of educational and tech-
nical content will be developed and introduced in chapter 3. This framework will
focus on the single parts of teaching and learning strategies in order to address the
issues of the educational experts stated above.
The created framework will then be used as a basis for the implementation of an
authoring tool for educational hypermedia. The design of this authoring tool will
be outlined in chapter 4.
A prototype of this authoring tool will then be used for the evaluation of the frame-
work. This evaluation and the evaluation strategy will be introduced in chapter 5
and then be undertaken in two steps.
Firstly, an interview evaluation will be done in which several technical and edu-
cational experts describe their experience with the framework and the authoring
tool. The interview evaluation will be outlined in chapter 6.
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