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3.1 Theoretical approach 3 EFTECS<br />

process <strong>of</strong> educational material for educational experts. The most promis-<br />

ing approach to achieve this simplification is to use a model that educational<br />

experts are used to.<br />

Special focus will be laid on the very detailed analysis <strong>of</strong> the components<br />

<strong>of</strong> the teaching and learning strategies as identified in section 2.7.<br />

• The EFTECS should provide the complete separation <strong>of</strong> educational and<br />

technical content.<br />

A partial separation <strong>of</strong> the components would simplify the technical imple-<br />

mentation <strong>of</strong> the model. The higher the degree <strong>of</strong> separation will be, the<br />

more difficult the technical implementation <strong>of</strong> the EFTECS will become.<br />

This relation is based on the fact that educational material which is tightly<br />

woven together, e.g. a web page, can easily be authored by a technical ex-<br />

pert without an authoring tool. If an educational expert with some technical<br />

expertise wanted to design the same web page, he would need an author-<br />

ing tool, for example “Front Page”. However, if the authoring process is<br />

simplified so much that the educational expert does not need any technical<br />

knowledge at all, which is the desired state since he can concentrate on his<br />

educational task, then he will need a well-designed authoring system that<br />

focuses on his educational skills.<br />

• The EFTECS should be easily extensible to allow further development and<br />

reuse <strong>of</strong> material.<br />

It is very important for the acceptance and further development <strong>of</strong> the EFTECS<br />

that the authored material is as easy to reuse for different purposes as pos-<br />

sible. This issue has to be addressed in the EFTECS and will allow the<br />

educational expert to search, find and reuse educational material that has<br />

already been authored .<br />

• The EFTECS should be applicable in practical authoring.<br />

It is not desirable to just create a theoretical model which is not usable<br />

in a practical situation. Therefore, it is not only the EFTECS that has to<br />

be designed, but a feasibility study in form <strong>of</strong> a prototype also has to be<br />

designed, developed and tested. This prototype will be introduced in chapter<br />

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