SITUATION-BASED SCENARIOS FOR E-LEARNING

International audienceOnline Distance Learning (ODL) applications as other interactive systems need to be scenarized in order to represent and manage users' activities in an effective way. To help applications designers, a clear and flexible framework should guide scenario elaboration. We propose an approach based on scenario structuring using the notion of "situation". This framework takes place in our overall ODL management methodology, namely a before-throughout-after scenario creation, execution and evolution cycle. A "situation" in our approach is an elementary building block dividing system's actors' interactions into contextually independent scenes and allowing scenario description and adaptation. In this paper, we discuss our methodology to manage ODL applications, introduce the situation-based scenarios and illustrate how they can be applied on a case study in order to enhance Online Distance Learning