Caminatas I

Abstract

This Caminatas Example Unit of Learning has been developed to support the storing and retrieving information process in a external file inside IMS LD and the use of its content if the learning flow. It was included for the first time in a multi-rom providing support for language acquisition and fixing in Primary School. Caminatas consists of several stand-alone modules with basic data communication, groupped around a central main module to grant access and share tasks. It has some features to be personalized (user name), some setting-up for the full multi-rom (ambiental audio) and some adaptive configuration (visibility of intros just in the first running of every instance). Originally, it was scripted and programmed in Flash/Action Script, together with the publishing company Oxford University Press, and has been adapted to XML and IMS LD in the Open University of The Netherlands to be used as a base on educational gaming research and IMS LD.