The DITA 1.2 Learning and Training specialization provides a set of specialized DITA
topics, a learning interactions domain, a learning metadata domain, and a learning map domain to
support creating and delivering structured learning content.
Learning topic types
The following specialized DITA topic types provide support for creating learning and training
content.
- Learning Plan topic type
- Describes learning needs and goals, instructional design models, task analyses, learning
taxonomies, and other information necessary to the lesson planning process.
- Learning Overview topic type
- Identifies the learning objectives and includes other information helpful to the learner,
such prerequisites, duration, and intended audience.
- Learning Content topic type
- Provides the learning content itself and enables direct use of content from DITA task,
concept, and reference topics, as well as additional content of any topic type that supports
specific objectives declared in the Learning Overview topic type.
- Learning Summary topic type
- Recaps and provides context for the learning objectives and provides guidance to reinforce
learning and long-term memory.
- Learning Assessment topic type
- Presents instruments that measure progress, encourage retrieval, and stimulate
reinforcement of the learning content and can be presented before the content as a
pre-assessment or after the content as a post-assessment checkpoint or test.
Learning map domain
Use the learning map domain to organize groups of topics as learning objects.
Note: The learning map domain is part of the learningMap and the learningBookmap document types.
As these learning map structures are delivered as a domain specialization rather than as a
structural specialization, it is possible to extend any type of DITA map to include these
structures.
- learningGroup
- A map container and optional topic reference to introduce and group learning objects into
higher-level organizations, such as course-level, module-level, or lesson-level. A
learningGroup can contain other learningGroup elements, allowing you to organize learning
content at course, module, or other higher levels of hierarchy.
- learningObject
- A map container and optional topic reference to introduce and group the topic references
for a learning object.
- learningPlanRef
- A topic reference to a learning plan or other topic that provides the learning plan.
- learningOverviewRef
- A topic reference to a learning overview or other topic that introduces the learning
object.
- learningContentRef
- A topic reference to a learning content topic, or a topic, task, concept, reference or
other specialized topic.
- learningContentComponentRef
- A topic reference to a learning content topic, or a topic, task, concept, reference or
other specialized topic.
- learningSummaryRef
- A topic reference to a learning summary or other topic that provides the summary.
- learningPreAssessmentRef
- A topic reference to a learning assessment or other topic that is used as a
pre-assessment.
- learningPostAssessmentRef
- A topic reference to a learning assessment or other topic that is used as a
post-assessment.
Learning interactions domain
The learning interactions domain defines a set of basic learning
interaction elements as a DITA domain.
- lcOpenQuestion
- Poses an open-ended question in an assessment interaction.
- lcTrueFalse
- Presents the learner with two choices, one correct, the other incorrect, often presented
as true/false or yes/no responses.
- lcSingleSelect
- Presents three or more choices, only one of which is correct.
- lcMultipleSelect
- Presents two or more choices, two or more of which are correct.
- lcMatching
- In a list of paired choices, the learner identifies the correct choice that matches
another choice.
- lcHotspot
- Presents an image, and the learner clicks on one or more regions to indicate a
choice.
- lcSequencing
- Presents choices in a list that the learner must arrange in a correct ordered
sequence.
Learning metadata domain
The learning metadata domain defines a set of basic learning metadata elements as a DITA
domain and available for use in the learning topic types, as specialized prolog metadata and in
the learning map domain, as specialized topicmeta.
lcLom makes the learning metadata elements available in the learning
topics and learning map domain.
Elements in lcLom include:
- lomAggregationLevel
- lomContext
- lomCoverage
- lomDifficulty
- lomInstallationRemarks
- lomIntendedUserRole
- lomInteractivityLevel
- lomInteractivityType
- lomLearningResourceType
- lomOtherPlatformRequirements
- lomSemanticDensity
- lomStructure
- lomTechRequirement
- lomTypicalAgeRange
- lomTypicalLearningTime
Instructor notes
The learning interactions domain also makes available an lcInstructornote element for
providing instructor-specific information.