iPlan: A model of lesson plans to help teaching process in web learning environment

This paper presents iPlan, a model to implement a system to support the creation of lesson plans. It was the result of a systematic review on tools that help teachers on authoring courses that must be delivered through the World Wide Web (Web). The iPlan system aims to simplify teachers´ workload while preparing lessons that will be available online in some Learning Management System (LMS). It will provide authoring tools that enable teachers to create and edit lesson plans based on Pedagogical Patterns. By Pedagogical Patterns we mean tested lesson plans or roadmap lessons. Teachers will be empowered with means to create custom patterns, as well. The main feature that distinguishes this study from previous researches is the integrated approach with LMS, lesson plans and pedagogical patterns. In order to allow teachers to store new pedagogical patterns, iPlan uses iRepository, a repository of educational digital content which is also integrated with Moodle. iPlan is being developed for Moodle environment and will be distributed under the GNU Public License (GPL).