Development of generator for lesson plan making support systems

This study has developed a generator system that generates various type of lesson plan making support systems automatically. The framework and items that each teacher needs are defined, and the generator automatically generates a lesson plan making support system according to the definition. First, this led to development of the formal definition of description format for describing lesson plans using the extended BNF notation. It becomes possible for the users to input and edit whatever they need according to the description format. The user can write a grammatically correct lesson plan and edit it without grammatical errors (healthness). Second, this developed a generator that automatically generates the Java source code of a system corresponding to the description format. The generator can deal with the frameworks and input items that various teachers want to have in their lesson plans (completeness). It can also generate a system according to each user´s purpose (generality).