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EasyAuthor-Supporting Low Computer Proficiency Teachers In The Design of Educational Content for Adult IlliteratesAuthors: Sridhar Chimalakonda,Kesav V Nori Conference: In proceedings of The 31st ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Extended Abstracts, Work-In-Progress Track), CHI 2013 Date: 2013-04-27 Report no: IIIT/TR/2013/101 AbstractIt is inevitable to make use of technology to support 287 million adult illiterates of India spread across 22 Indian Languages and dialects. However, even with many advances in end-user software engineering and a multitude of authoring tools, teachers often have to spend considerable effort to design and use technology for developing educational content. In this paper, we present EasyAuthor, a preliminary environment for end users (i.e., low computer proficiency teachers) to create and manage educational content for adult illiterates in India. The primary intent of EasyAuthor is to support teachers with the easy authoring of educational content and at the same time adhere to adult literacy learning methodologies. We describe the process of authoring educational content using EasyAuthor and the use of ontologies as a back-bone. We then briefly discuss a preliminary study of our tool with a few teachers and present some interesting aspects of EasyAuthor along with its limitations. Finally, we conclude with some promising future directions. Full paper: pdf Centre for Software Engineering Research Lab |
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