Learning Materials: towards the Establishment of Guidelines for Domain Modeling

Domain modeling plays a fundamental role in the educational process, especially regarding to the development of learning materials. Despite its relevance, there are few approaches specifically designed for the educational content modeling task. Moreover, there is not a consensus on the features that a domain model should present and on the mechanisms that the underlying modeling approach should provide in order to facilitate the development of learning materials. In this work, we investigate the characteristics of a domain modeling approach as well as the possible types of information it should handle for establishing an initial set of guidelines to model educational contents. In addition, three approaches to the development of educational hypermedia applications are analyzed according to the proposed guidelines.