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

3.7 Content space 3 EFTECS
3.7 Content space
In order to achieve a maximum level of reusability of already existing educa-
tional material, this material has to be structured in a specific way. This structure
should allow the fast and domain specific search for existing material. Within the
EFTECS this structure is called content space. The content space stores all EHPs,
TLSs and EMs and the linking information between them.
Furthermore, the content space is dynamically growing in size. It is extended
with every new piece of authored educational hypermedia material. The bigger
the content space gets, the more options an educational expert will get to reuse
material.
Some desirable advantages of the content space are:
• It is growing in size with every new piece of authored educational hyperme-
dia.
• The search for educational material should be fast and easy.
• It supports the reuse of educational material.
• The existing linking between the single elements of the content space will
allow insights into the authored material.
However, the design and implementation of such a content space is far out of scope
for this PhD. The authoring tool will implement a static approach of the content
space in form of an SQL database, which will allow quick and easy access to the
already existing material, but will not apply any artificial intelligent operations on
the material.
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