%0 Journal Article
%T Modeling Educational Content: The Cognitive Approach of the PALO Language
%A Miguel Rodr¨ªguez-Artacho
%A M. Felisa Verdejo Ma¨ªllo
%J Educational Technology & Society
%D 2004
%I International Forum of Educational Technology & Society
%X This paper presents a reference framework to describe educational material. It introduces the PALO Language as a cognitive based approach to Educational Modeling Languages (EML). In accordance with recent trends for reusability and interoperability in Learning Technologies, EML constitutes an evolution of the current content-centered specifications of learning material, involving the description of learning processes and methods from a pedagogical and instructional perspective. The PALO Language, thus, provides a layer of abstraction for the description of learning material, including the description of learning activities, structure and scheduling. The framework makes use of domain and pedagogical ontologies as a reusable and maintainable way to represent and store instructional content, and to provide a pedagogical level of abstraction in the authoring process.
%K Educational Modeling Languages
%K Learning Technologies
%K Instructional Design
%K Domain Modeling
%K Learning Ontologies
%U http://www.ifets.info/abstract.php?art_id=13