Investigating the efficacy of XML and stylesheets to render electronic courseware for multiple learning styles

The objective of this project was to test the efficacy of using Extensible Markup Language (XML) - in particular the DocBook 5.0b5 schema - and Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) to render electronic courseware that can be dynamically re-formatted according to a student's individual learning style. The text of a typical lesson was marked up in XML according to the DocBook schema, and several XSLT stylesheets were created to transform the XML document into different versions, each according to particular learning needs. These learning needs were drawn from the Felder-Silverman learning style model. The notes had links to trigger JavaScript functions that allowed the student to reformat the notes to produce different views of the lesson.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Computer Science

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Du Toit, Masha

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Suleman, Hussein

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6393

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/6393