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

3 EFTECS
3 EFTECS
In order to realise the separation of educational and technical content in educa-
tional hypermedia it is important to follow a systematic approach. The approach
selected for this PhD project is to create a framework that describes the desired
content separation and provides the basis for a practical feasibility study of a pro-
totype authoring tool. From this point forward the created framework will be
referred to as the :
EFTECS - Extensible Framework of Technical and Educational Content
Separation.
In chapter 4 the implementation of an educational authoring tool based on the
EFTECS will demonstrate the feasibility of the EFTECS.
3.1 Theoretical approach
As outlined in the introduction and the literature review it is important to sep-
arate the educational components from the technical components in educational
hypermedia in order to simplify the authoring process of educational hyperme-
dia material. It has also been mentioned that these two components are generally
tightly woven together. Therefore, the separation of the two components is one of
the most important issues of this PhD project.
The EFTECS is designed to provide an easy to use model to separate the two
components from each other. The general concept of the separation has already
been shown in the existing work [14][121] in the field. In the literature review the
drawbacks of the competing approaches have already been addressed (cf. section
2.7). However, it is necessary to point out the most important aspects once again:
• The EFTECS should be based on educational teaching and learning strate-
gies.
The major focus of this work is based on the simplification of the authoring
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