A Mash-up Authoring Tool for e-Learning based on Pedagogical Templates

The purpose of this paper is twofold. On the one hand it aims at presenting the “pedagogical template ” methodology for the definition of didactic activities, through the aggregation of atomic learning entities on the basis of pre-defined schemas. On the other hand it proposes a Web-based authoring tool to build learning resources applying the defined methodology. The authoring tool is inspired by mashing-up principles and allows the combination of local learning entities with learning entities coming from external sources belonging to Web 2.0 like Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube and SlideShare. Eventually, the results of a small-scale experimentation, inside a University course, purposed both to define a pedagogical template for “virtual scientific experiments ” and to build and deploy learning resources applying such template are presented