East/West Consortium: Next Generation Authoring Tools & Instructional Applications

摘要 东西方联盟是大学、出版商、计算机软件和硬件制造商以及政府的独特合作伙伴关系。该合作伙伴关系的目标是开发下一代创作工具，使非程序员能够开发交互式内容，培训和教育软件。由于没有一个单一的学习架构适合所有情况，该联盟将开发一套工具，使非程序员的内容和设计专家能够使用。 该联盟将开发由大学合作伙伴和苹果公司率先开发的工具。其中包括：认知导师创作工具（卡内基梅隆大学）、基于知识的导师创作工具（马萨诸塞州大学阿默斯特分校）、媒体丰富的CBT创作工具（斯坦福大学医学院）、具有批评者的模拟创作工具（科罗拉多大学博尔德分校）和基于模拟的学习创作工具（苹果公司）。这些工具都将是跨平台的，使用Apple-IBM Kaleida的ScriptX标准，并由许多部分组成，可以集成到使用Apple、IBM等Open Doc和SOM/DSOM标准构建新的混合工具。苹果将推动这些标准的使用，提供创建任务特定创作工具的核心工具技术，并为这些努力提供商业化途径。为了确保开发工作能够满足商业工具的需求，联盟中的出版商（霍顿米夫林公司和PWS出版公司）正在为解决真实的世界问题而在初级代数和模拟领域建立下一代交互式内容。与专注于医疗应用领域的出版商也建立了合作伙伴关系。

Abstract The East-West Consortium is a unique partnership of universities, publishers, a computer software and hardware manufacturer, and the government. The partnership aim is to develop next generation authoring tools to empower non-programmers to develop interactive content, training, and educational software. Since there is no single learning architecture that is appropriate for all situations, the consortium will develop a suite of tools and make them accessible to content and design specialists who are non-programmers. The consortium will build tools that have been pioneered by the university partners and by Apple. These include: cognitive tutor authoring tool (Carnegie Mellow University), knowledge-based tutor authoring tool (University of Massachusetts at Amherst), media-rich CBT authoring tool (Stanford Medical School), simulation with critics authoring tool (University of Colorado at Boulder), and simulation-based learning authoring tools (Apple). These tools will all be cross -platform using Apple-IBM Kaleida s ScriptX standard and be composed of many parts that can be integrated to build new hybrid tools using Apple, IBM, etc. Open Doc and SOM/DSOM standard. Apple will drive the use of these standards, provide the core tools technology for creating the task specific authoring tools, and provide a commercialization path for these efforts. To ensure that the development effort is responsive to commercial tool needs, the publishers in the consortium, Houghton Mifflin Company and PWS Publishing Company) are building next generation interactive content in the areas of beginning algebra and simulations for real world problem solving. Partnerships with publishers focussed on medical application areas are also in place.