Next Generation Authoring Systems: Integration of Multiple Methodologies and Tools

摘要

The methodologies and tools for developing Computer Based Training (CBT) courseware, user interfaces, hypermedia databases and knowledge-based systems have during the past years evolved mostly as isolated disciplines. The increasing availability of easy-to-use tools on graphical workstations and personal computers is braking the borders and barriers between these disciplines. The same facilities may be used for various purposes and for authoring various interactive software. The paper is an attempt to integrate these different disciplines into a conception of the next generation authoring system. The integration of the powers of these various disciplines may amplify the development of multimedia courseware, much more than continuing the separate lines of development of multimedia courseware, much more than continuing the separate lines of development of methodologies and tools. The advent of the 'HyperCard and VisiCalc' for courseware authoring may be near, which means the introduction of real authoring systems to finally replace the still commonplace authoring languages. (Copyright (c) 1990 by Faculty of Technical Mathematics and Informatics, Delft, The Netherlands.)