GYM - Author : Generation Of Self - Learning Exercises In Philosophy

Can a system have the ability to dynamically generate, on demand, a large number of adequate exercises in order to feed a learning environment in philosophy? We addressed this issue with our Philosophical Gymnasium (Phi-GYM) project with its authoring tool. Our motivation in designing the authoring tool was to: (1) Find an effective way to provide a wide range of exercises, and to; (2) Provide Philosophy teachers with an easy, autonomous, and collaborative way to create exercises related to classical Philosophical texts without worrying about technology. After a brief review of related work, this article describes the design and development of the Philosophical Gymnasium’s webbased authoring system, which semi-automatically generates self-learning exercises in the philosophical domain for a web-based learning environment (the Gymnasium’s second component). We conclude by presenting our plan about GYM-Author’s performance evaluation and deployment plan for scaling the system. 1 Known in French as “Le Gymnase Philosophique”. 2 The Philosophical Gymnasium has two components, the authoring system described in this paper and which we call “GYM-Author” and the Gymnasium’s learning environment proper, which we call “GYM-Tutor” and which is still in development. License: The author(s) retain copyright, but ACM receives an exclusive publication license. Valéry Psyché Université du Québec à Montréal P.O. Box 8888, Station Centreville, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8 Canada [email protected] Alexandre Kalemjian Collège Montmorency 475 bd. de l'Avenir, Laval QC H7N 5H9, Canada [email protected] Jules Mozes Université du Québec à Montréal [email protected] Céline Maurice Université du Québec à Montréal [email protected] Pierre Poirier Université du Québec à Montréal P.O. Box 8888, Station Centreville, Montreal, QC H3C 3P8 Canada [email protected]