SMID: A Semantic Model of Instructional Design

This paper proposes a general method on how to build a semantic model for instructional design. At the meantime, a semantic model for instructional design is also proposed (called SMID), which mainly includes ontology and processing module. SMID ontology includes several ontologies used in instructional design, such as knowledge object ontology, material object ontology, learning goal ontology, instructional strategy ontology, learning action ontology; SMID processing module means the processing method used in instructional design, including knowledge selection, instructional strategy selection, learning action sequence generation, learning resource generation. With J2EE Platform and Drool tools, the SMID system is implemented, and some experiments with real course are done and conclusions are also given.