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Why change authors into programmers?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Paul Bangs  and
Lesley Shield
Paul Bangs
Affiliation:
University College London & The Open University, UK
Lesley Shield
Affiliation:
The Open University, UK
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Abstract

Experience in developing multimedia programs has found that reliance on commercial developers does not always produce suitable material in terms of pedagogic quality, whereas training content writers as programmers is costly. This paper examines attempts to solve this and illustrates important recent initiatives. The Open University is developing flexible activity-type shells which are content independent. This is matched by an object-oriented approach to the program itself for maximum re-usability. The MALTED project addresses the problem by providing sophisticated authoring tools, but also sets up an asset base to make available re-usable language resources, helping to avoid re-invention of too many wheels.

Type
Selected Papers
Information
ReCALL , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 1999 , pp. 19 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1999

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