Title :
Facilitating teachers in developing online PBL courses
Author :
Yongwu Miao ; Samaka, M. ; Impagliazzo, John
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Cognitive Sci., Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
Abstract :
Developing a sound online problem-based learning (PBL) course plan is difficult because teachers need comprehensive PBL and technical knowledge. This paper proposes a model-driven approach to develop a PBL authoring tool that helps teachers create and customize online PBL course plans in a cost-effective and flexible manner. A pilot study was conducted to assess teacher acceptance of the tool. The results reveal that after a short training session, teachers understood the authoring tool and thought the tool was easy to use to develop online PBL course plans.
Keywords :
authoring systems; computer aided instruction; PBL authoring tool; model-driven approach; online PBL courses development; short training session; sound online problem-based learning course plan; Collaboration; Computational modeling; Computers; Conferences; Educational institutions; Unified modeling language; IMS-LD; PBL; course authoring; domain-specific modeling language; learning deisgn; model-driven architecture;
Conference_Titel :
Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bali
DOI :
10.1109/TALE.2013.6654481
