An alternate classification of LD authoring approaches

Abstract

This is a presentation of the paper submitted at Barcelona TENCompetence meeting. It presents an alternate classification of IMS LD authoring approaches, viewing the creation of UoLs as a conglomeration of processes rather than a single process. The classification, characterized as bottom-up and top-down with regard to the way the authors can approach the design task and the support and guidance afforded to them with the application of design rules, is an attempt to clearly demarcate today’s IMS LD authoring tools, and to inform the development of a new generation of tools in the support of non-experts in the specification. The salient features of the classification, as presented, can form the underpinnings of the identification of gaps in today’s IMS LD authoring tools in the support for non-expert authors.