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Article of Volume 7, Issue 4, December 2012

A model for flexibly editing CSCL scripts

Authors: Pericles Sobreira, Pierre Tchounikine

Abstract: This article presents a model whose primary concern and design rationale is to offer users (teachers) with basic ICT skills an intuitive, easy, and flexible way of editing scripts. The proposal is based on relating an end-user representation as a table and a machine model as a tree. The table-tree model introduces structural expressiveness and semantics that are limited but straight forward and intuitive. This approach is less expressive and introduces less semantics than approaches based on workflow representations and complex meta-models. However, it may be enhanced to represent complex features such as by-intention grouping mechanisms, constraint checking or configuration of enactment frameworks. A usability test suggests that the model/interface is easy to use and that teachers avail themselves of the flexibility available to model scripts according to their perspectives.

Keywords: CSCL Scripts, Edition, Flexibility

Citation: Sobreira, P. & Tchounikine, P. (2012) A model for flexibly editing CSCL scripts. ijcscl 7 (4), pp. 567-592

DOI: 10.1007/s11412-012-9157-9

Preprint: sobreira_tchounikine_7_4.pdf

About this article at link.springer.com [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11412-012-9157-9] including a link to the official electronic version.