Extending Web educational applications via SGML structuring and content-based capabilities

Abstract

In this paper we present an approach to the development of World Wide Web educational applications based on a deeper understanding of the roJe that mark-up languages play in the Web, and how they could improve Web educational applications. The paper begins with a discussion of the Web's key features that have made it so successful. Then we present and analyse different approaches to educational uses ofthe Web. We introduce the SGML/HTML as a tool to organise and structure information, and propose a new approach to the development of Web educational applications based on SGML extensions to the HTML language. Finally, we use our own experience in developing educational applications as an example of the new possibilities offered by this approach.

A Document-Oriented Paradigm for the Construction of Content-Intensive Applications

“…The document-oriented paradigm as described in this paper was formerly used to improve the maintenance of Lire en Français [2][17] [18], an educational hypermedia developed in the context of the EU Socrates-Lingua Project Galatea (Apprentisage de la compréhension en langues voisines -Learning to comprehend familiar tongues). Lire en Français was oriented to allow learners whose native tongue was a Romance language to understand texts written in French.…”