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2.6 Teaching and learning strategies 2 LITERATURE REVIEW
2.6.3 Non-computable teaching and learning strategies
During the identification process of teaching and learning strategies it was recog-
nised that not all of them are computable or appropriate for this project at the
moment, e.g. the acquisition of motor skills [96][97][98].
2.6.4 Question and Answer
The Question and Answer teaching and learning strategy (QA-TLS) is mostly
used for testing purposes [19], but can also be used to determine a student’s ex-
isting knowledge, e.g. profiling his knowledge in adaptive hypermedia systems.
Rushby identified several sub-types of the question and answer strategy [19]:
• One question, several answers, single choice
• One question, several answers, multiple choice
• One statement, true or false
• Matching a list
The QA-TLS is highly structured and therefore simple to implement into our
framework for these selected question and answer types. There are several other
question and answer types, e.g. discussion questions, but this project does not
aim at defining every possible QA-TLS neither is it based on a didatic model of
education. However, the goal is to create a generic framework for the creation of
TLSs in the future.
The next task is to analyse which meta-information is needed and has to be used
for this generic framework. This step will be explained in chapter 3
2.6.5 Lecturing
The lecture teaching and learning strategy (Lecture-TLS) is the classical type of
delivering information from the teacher to the student as described by Cotton [96].
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