A Model-driven and External Approach for Learning Design upon Learning Management Systems

The research work presented is about helping teachers-designers in focusing on instructional design activities when using widely spread Learning Management System. We originally propose to focus on the implicit LMS pedagogical language and to exploit it outside of the LMS by well-suited instructional design tools. We concretely propose to follow a Domain Specific Modeling approach in order to formalize the LMS abstract syntax (meta-model) and to use it as a basis for the elaboration and development of Visualsyntax (meta-model) and to use it as a basis for the elaboration and development of Visual Instructional Design Languages and dedicated tools. We also propose to extend LMSs with a communication API for importing/exporting courses/scenarios from/to these graphical editors.