Authoring Computer-Based Instruction for Teaching Procedural Knowledge Using Instructional Event Shells

摘要

This paper reports our work towards the development of an authoring system for automating the instructional design for teaching procedural knowledge. The core of our work is the design of a set of instructional events for teaching procedural knowledge, Introduction, Presentation, Demonstration, Exploration, Practice, and Test, and the development of corresponding instructional event shells and an instructional simulation tool. An instructional event shell is a piece of program code that executes an instructional event. Demonstration, Exploration, Practice, and Test event shells are built upon the instructional simulation tool. The instructional simulation tool provides an environment for creating simulations of procedural knowledge. These simulations may be used for Demonstration, Exploration, Practice, or Test The focus of this paper is a description of these instructional events and the instructional simulation tool.