Didactic as a first-class citizen in courseware development

Abstract

Since the development of courseware is expensive, reuse is a must. In order to reach the full reuse potential, the individual courseware modules that are stored in a repository should be neutral with respect to as many aspects as possible. In this paper, we examine how didactic-neutral courseware modules can be achieved and in particular how their combination into courses exhibiting a certain didactic method can be supported. This requires a formalized look at didactics and tools that support the weaving of contents and didactics during the course building process.