Online learning requires learning material to be made available in a suitable manner over a network. Content Management System (CMS) [1] helps in making the learning materials organized and accessible in some intelligent fashion online. Content creation for a CMS requires two roles of people, teacher and content developer. Content developer interacts with teacher for getting content. Content developer then formats and places content into a CMS. This interaction between teacher and content developer is manual and depends on their personal experience.
Pedagogy-oriented Content Markup Language (PCML) is an effort to automate this interaction between teacher and content developer. PCML defines a set of tags, for tagging content, based on the pedagogic role of a particular part of content. Content developer can then use this tagged content (developed by teacher) to develop contents for a specific Content Management System. It also addresses many other issues in content development like reusability, personalization and minimal loss of information.
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Kumar, A., Sasikumar, M. (2007). PCML: A Pedagogy-oriented Content Markup Language. In: Iskander, M. (eds) Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6262-9_3
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