Re: Cohesion (type 2)

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Subject: Re: Cohesion (type 2)
From: Clark Quinn (cquinn@knowledgeplanet.com)
Date: Thu 24 Feb 2000 - 01:19:54 MET 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 16:19:54 -0800
From: Clark Quinn <cquinn@knowledgeplanet.com>
Subject: Re: Cohesion (type 2)

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> >Cohesion is seen as two different things, the similarity between LOs in
>
> >terms of fonts, graphics etc (type 1) and the information and guidance
>which
> >'glues' the LOs together to form a 'course' (type 2).
>
>With respect to the type 2 cohesion, we did follow a computational
>linguistic approach where:
>a) Non-terminal symbols are 'composed teaching tasks'
>b) Terminal symbols are 'atomic teaching tasks'
>c) and composition rules determine the way(s) in which tasks can be
>"glued"
>
>This approach has made it possible for us to solve some
>of the problems we have faced in our work on adaptive educational
>systems.

Can you provide a pointer to this work? It sounds great! -- Clark 

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