SBIR Phase II: Adaptive Authoring for Compound XML Documents: Collaboration Tools and eLearning Content Creation for STEM

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目旨在开发富媒体自适应创作工具，用于为科学和数学协作文档创建电子学习内容。建议的目标是消除妨碍电子学习内容开发和部署的技术障碍，并改进从多种协作文档类型创建结构化内容的工具。这个第二阶段项目的研究目标将扩展第一阶段开发的Lexicon自适应创作框架，通过QTI XML绑定显示的复合文档创作问题来衡量，我们将使用它作为推进自适应创作框架的工具。该项目将详细说明Lexicon操作符声明，以提供QTI标记元素所需的常规创作行为，并根据常规项目里程碑的进行表进行编写。在项目结束时，预计Lexicon将成为富媒体协作文档的自适应编写工具，具有对QTI标记的完整语言支持，作为编写和交付电子学习内容的一种手段。额外的配置语言改进和配置创作工具将使Lexicon能够适应电子学习内容的各种复合XML文档类型，扩展的编程接口将使Lexicon能够嵌入到广泛的协作电子学习应用程序中。美国的教育目前正在经历向数字时代的过渡，这将影响教学的各个方面。当前这一代的协作工具是基于文本的，不支持交流数学所需的符号。该项目旨在开发一套协作工具，这些工具具有对数学符号的原生支持，因此学生和教师可以更有效地交流科学和数学概念。第二阶段项目旨在扩展第一阶段开发的Lexicon自适应创作框架，以支持提供丰富教学内容所需的嵌入式语义标记，并使Lexicon能够支持一系列通过相对少量语义标记实现的协作电子学习应用程序：MathIM，一款即时消息应用程序，在第一阶段进行原型设计，允许用户在人对人聊天消息中包含数学符号；MathWiki是一个基于网络的论坛应用程序，支持对需要数学符号的主题有共同兴趣的用户社区；MathSpace，一个用于创建学生工作表的在线创作环境；数学媒体环境（MathME）是一种“虚拟笔记本”，学生可以在其中记录他们在网上做的作业。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to develop rich-media adaptive authoring tools for e-learning content creation for collaborative documents for science and mathematics. The proposed objective is to remove technical barriers that impede development and deployment of e-learning content, and to advance tools that create structured content from multiple cooperating document types. The research objectives of this Phase II project will extend the Lexicon adaptive authoring framework developed in Phase I, as measured by compound document authoring issues exhibited by the QTI XML binding, which we will use as a vehicle to advance the adaptive authoring framework. The project will elaborate the Lexicon operator declarations to provide conventional authoring behavior needed for QTI markup elements, according to a progressive schedule of regular project milestones. At the end of the project, it is anticipated that the Lexicon will represent an adaptive authoring tool for rich-media collaborative documents with full language support for QTI markup, as a means for authoring and delivering e-learning content. Additional configuration language improvements and configuration authoring tools will position Lexicon to adapt to a wide range of compound XML document types for e-learning content, and extended programming interfaces will enable Lexicon to embed into a wide range of collaborative e-learning applications.Education in the U.S. is currently undergoing a transition to the digital age that will impact every aspect of teaching and learning. The current generation of collaboration tools are text-based,and do not support the notation needed to communicate mathematics. This project seeks to develop a suite of collaboration tools that have native support for mathematical notation, so that students and instructors can communicate scientific and mathematical concepts more effectively. This Phase II project aims to will extend the Lexicon adaptive authoring framework developed in Phase I, to support embedded semantic markup needed to deliver rich instructional content, and to position Lexicon to support a series of collaborative e-learning applications that are enabled by a relatively small amount of semantic markup: MathIM, an instant messaging application, prototyped during Phase I, that allows users include mathematical notation in person-to-person chat messages; MathWiki, a web-based forum application that supports communities of users who share an interest in topics that require mathematical notation; MathSpace, an online authoring environment for creating student worksheets; and MathME, or the Math Media Environment, a 'virtual notebook' in which students can record the work they are doing online.