APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT-AWARE AUTHORING TRANSFORM

• US 20070277097A1
• Filed: 05/25/2006
• Published: 11/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Munson, Eric Benjamin, Laroche, Matthew Paul, Hennum, Erik Frederick, Nuzzo-Jones, Goss Franklin, Hunt, John P.
• Application Number:
  US11/420,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20070277097A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/235
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

An computer program product, a system, and method are disclosed for providing a training service. Delivery of the training service comprises selecting an input file comprising a plurality of presentation options, a plurality of mode definitions and a transform module. The transform module comprises transform logic configured to act upon content of an input file to present the input file to a user differently according to characteristics of a selected mode definition. Delivery of the training service further comprises receiving an input file selection and a mode definition selection. In addition, the transform module dynamically generates an output format for presentation of the content of the input file. The output format is generated by the transform logic as determined by the characteristics of the selected mode definition.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a:

computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to perform an operation to provide a training service, the operation comprising;

providing a set of at least one input files comprising a plurality of presentation options;

providing a plurality of mode definitions;

providing a transform module having a transform logic configured to act upon content of an input file to present the input file to a user differently according to characteristics of a selected mode definition;

receiving a selection of an input file from the set of input files;

receiving a selection of a mode definition; and

dynamically generating an output format for presentation of the content of the input file, the output format generated by the transform logic of the transform module as determined by the characteristics of the selected mode definition.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the content of the selected input file comprises instructional information, the operation further comprising:

delivering the output format to a user; and

assessing the user'"'"'s mastery of the instructional information.

3. The computer program product of claim 2, the operation further comprising:

making a partial assessment of the user'"'"'s mastery of the instructional information prior to delivering the entire output format to the user; and

dynamically modifying the mode definition selection in response to the partial assessment of the user'"'"'s mastery of the instructional information, wherein the output format is modified according to the modified mode definition selection.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the selected mode definition comprises a plurality of view tags and the presentation options from the input file are identified by target tags, wherein the view tags correlate with a subset of the target tags and associated selectable subsections in the input file.

5. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein the selected mode definition further comprises a plurality of presentation indicators that the transform logic uses to determine the output format.

6. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein the transform logic comprises:

extracting the view tags from the selected mode definition;

selecting a plurality of presentation options from the selected input file, wherein target tags of the presentation options correlate with the view tags of the selected mode definition; and

transforming the input file to generate the output format based on the selected mode definition.

7. The computer program product of claim 4, wherein providing at least one input file comprises creating a plurality of presentation options in a text file wherein each presentation option is tagged with a target tag.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the input file and the mode definitions are formatted in extensible markup language (XML) and the target tags are XML tags associated with presentation option nodes in the input file and the view tags are XML tags indicating mode characteristics of a mode definition.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein providing the input file comprises selecting one or more presentation options selected from the group consisting of a textual question, an introductory textual option, a post-question textual option, a question hint option, a language output option, an output medium option, an audio output option, a copyright owner option, a background option, and a formatting option.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected mode definition comprises a plurality of view tags and the presentation options from the input file are identified by target tags, wherein the view tags correlate with a subset of the target tags and associated selectable subsections in the input file.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the selected mode definition further comprises a plurality of presentation indicators that the transform logic uses to determine the output format.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the transform logic comprises:

extracting the view tags from the selected mode definition;

selecting a plurality of presentation options from the selected input file, wherein target tags of the presentation options correlate with the view tags of the selected mode definition; and

generating the output format based on the selected mode definition and the selected presentation options.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein providing at least one input file comprises creating a plurality of presentation options in a text file wherein each presentation option comprises an associated target tag.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein providing the input file comprises selecting one or more presentation options selected from the group of presentation options consisting of a textual question, an introductory textual option, a post-question textual option, a question hint option, a language output option, an output medium option, an audio output option, a copyright owner option, a background option, and a formatting option and further comprises associating a target tag indicative of a presentation option type with each selected presentation option.

10. A system for delivering content to a user, the system comprising:

a computing device comprising a central processing unit, a memory, and an input/output interface, wherein the computing device is configured to execute computer readable instructions;

a plurality of mode definitions;

a set of at least one input files comprising a plurality of presentation options; and

a transform module configured to;

receive a selection of an input file from the set of input files;

receive a selection of a mode definition; and

act upon content of the selected input file to present the input file to a user differently according to characteristics of a selected mode definition in accordance with the characteristics of the selected mode definition.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the selected mode definition comprises a plurality of view tags and the presentation options from the input file are identified by target tags, wherein the view tags correlate with a subset of the target tags and associated presentation options in the input file.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the transform module is further configured to extract the view tags from the selected mode definition;

select a plurality of presentation options from the selected input file, wherein target tags of the presentation options correlate with the view tags of the selected mode definition; and

generate the output format based on the selected presentation options.

13. A method for providing a training service, the method comprising:

providing a set of at least one input files comprising a plurality of presentation options;

providing a plurality of mode definitions;

providing a transform module having a transform logic configured to act upon content of an input file to present the input file to a user differently according to characteristics of a selected mode definition;

receiving a selection of an input file from the set of input files;

receiving a selection of a mode definition from the plurality of mode definitions; and

H dynamically transforming the input file to generate an output format for presentation of the content of the input file, the output format generated by the transform logic of the transform module as determined by the characteristics of the selected mode definition.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the content of the selected input file comprises instructional information, the method further comprising:

delivering the output format to a user; and

assessing the user'"'"'s mastery of the instructional information.

15. The method of claim 14, the method further comprising:

making a partial assessment of the user'"'"'s mastery of the instructional information prior to delivering the entire output format to the user; and

dynamically modifying the mode definition selection in response to the partial assessment of the user'"'"'s mastery of the instructional information.