Inspiring the Instructional Design Process Through Online Experience Sharing

A lot of pedagogical resources are available thorough the Web. Paradoxically, it is hard for instructional designers to discover and decide which ones will best fulfill their needs. End-users' experience has been identified as a major source of information in the resource selection process. However, no solution totally fulfills the needs and end-users' experience can hardly be browsed while being dispersed over the web. Our research prototype called EVOXEL can help instructional designers by completing current web solutions. Built upon ontological mechanisms, EVOXEL provides teachers a mean to share experience they have developed during their instructional activities. This experience is crystallized in the educational resources assemblages they have built. This experience can then be browsed, inviting others to be inspired from it.