THE INGENIO ONLINE AUTHORING TOOL: INNOVATING MATERIALS DESIGN FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

摘要

Proyecto InGenio was triggered by the will to design a completely on-line CALL dedicated authoring shell that would allow language teachers from around the world to design their own materials--according to their student's needs and requirements-, create a database with these materials -thus making them available to other users-, and automatically convert them into learner-ready materials. The project therefore has two basic outcomes. On the one hand, a language independent, on-line multimedia CALL authoring shell, and on the other, an on-line learning environment offering the courseware designed and created within the InGenio authoring tool. The InGenio authoring tool currently provides language teachers with 15 fully operative exercise templates, as well as a number of templates to create reference materials such as grammar notes, use of language, cultural information and so forth. In addition, InGenio allows us to create monolingual or multilingual glossaries. Progress reports can also be called up at any point during the learning process since an assessment facility is permanently available. The data is automatically transferred to the server while the materials are in use. Students can therefore monitor their progress during the course of their work. Tutors may, if they wish, also create exams and tests. All the exercise templates include a number of common features such as limiting the number of attempts to complete an exercise, limiting the time for its completion, assigning individual values to the activities, etc., all of which allow tutors to monitor their students' progress throughout the course.