CAPE 2.7 Released

A new version of our authoring technology for adaptive learning is now available. CAPE 2.7 focuses on support for larger-scale design families and courseware product lines.

CAPE has long supported instructional design patterns as a means of capturing commonalities among sets of courseware designs. These patterns are represented in CAPE as abstract designs, or models, that can be instanced in various ways. At the same time, CAPE's data modeling facility, Condition Sets, and adaptive content features have been used to create designs that are data-driven, providing an alternative abstraction facility. The power of using these capabilities in concert has been demonstrated by a web-based authoring system for a class of engineering homework problems that provide students with adaptive remediation.

CAPE 2.7 extends these capabilities with new features that support more aggressive design reuse strategies. An example of such a strategy is the ACT Online courseware product line. This training system, sponsored by the U.S Federal Emergency Management Agency, provides 9 courses on cyber-terrorism incorporating a total of 45-50 modules that share a common instructional design macro-structure called STAR Legacy.