Instructional design tool

A system for deploying models of scenario specific details, comprising:

• a computer infrastructure operable to:
• receive recorded knowledge from a worker, wherein the recorded knowledge includes work-related knowledge;
• save the recorded knowledge in a standardized XML schema, wherein the standardized XML schema includes one or more objects derived from the recorded knowledge;
• add the scenario specific details comprising graphical content defined by values associated with classes of respective models to the one or more objects included within the standardized XML schema, wherein the respective models include a world model having object interactions, enumerations, world property repository, an event superset, a world map class that defines different world maps, a world class that defines properties in a selected world, an events in a world class that defines events in the world, and a world property class that provides labels and defines the world properties, the adding comprising:
• providing a field comprising the models and the classes, which are viewable in a hierarchical format on a graphical user interface;
• receiving input from a user comprising a selection of at least one of the models or the classes via the graphical user interface based on the one or more objects derived from the recorded knowledge;
• and
• generating a template including fillable fields comprising the values used to define the graphical content of the selected model or classes for the scenario specific details, such that the template provides the graphical content incorporated with the one or more objects derived from the recorded knowledge;
• receive the values as input in the fillable fields, wherein the values provide information for the added scenario specific details;
• create the scenario specific details from the received values;
• receive verification of the scenario specific details;
• and
• convert the scenario specific details into the standardized XML schema for implementation in a gaming scenario such that an XML feed including the standardized XML schema is automatically generated for use by a gaming layer, wherein the gaming layer uses the automatically generated XML feed to prepare a gaming engine for producing a learning game.

A method for deploying an instructional design tool comprising:

• providing a computer infrastructure being operable to:
• capture recorded knowledge in a standardized XML schema, wherein the standardized XML schema includes one or more objects derived from the recorded knowledge;
• capture scenario specific details for the one or more objects, wherein:
• the scenario specific details comprise graphical content defined by values of classes associated with respective predefined models of at least one of a character, an object and a world, wherein the respective predefined models include a world model having object interactions, enumerations, world property repository, an event superset, a world map class that defines different world maps, a world class that defines properties in a selected world, an events in a world class that defines events in the world, and a world property class that provides labels and defines the world properties,
• the scenario specific details are captured by use of a template including fillable fields configured to enter the values, and
• the template includes a field comprising the models and the classes, which are viewable in a hierarchical format on a graphical user interface;
• receive verification of the scenario specific details;
• receive input from a user comprising a selection of at least one of the models or the classes via the graphical user interface based on the one or more objects derived from the recorded knowledge;
• generate the template including the fillable fields comprising the values used to define the graphical content of the selected model or classes for the scenario specific details, such that the template provides the graphical content incorporated with the one or more objects derived from the recorded knowledge;
• receive the values as input in the fillable fields, wherein the values provide information for the captured scenario specific details, the information comprising definitions and actions for the one or more objects;
• create the scenario specific details from the received values;
• translate the scenario specific details into the standardized XML schema such that an XML feed including the standardized XML schema is automatically generated for use by a gaming layer, wherein the gaming layer uses the automatically generated XML feed to prepare a gaming engine for producing a learning game;
• and
• display the standardized XML schema.

A computer program product for capturing knowledge, the computer program product comprising:

• a tangible non-transitory computer readable storage memory;
• program instructions to receive recorded knowledge from a worker;
• program instructions to save the recorded knowledge in a standardized XML schema, wherein the standardized XML schema includes one or more objects derived from the recorded knowledge;
• program instructions to provide classes associated with a plurality of models, the classes comprising a style index class defining at least one type of an interaction in a gaming world as at least one of static, linear, simple, and complex, wherein the plurality of models include a world model having object interactions, enumerations, world property repository, an event superset, a world map class that defines different world maps, a world class that defines properties in a selected world, an events in a world class that defines events in the world, and a world property class that provides labels and defines the world properties;
• program instructions to model scenario specific details for the one or more objects, the scenario specific details comprising graphical content based on values provided for at least one class of the classes;
• program instructions to provide a field comprising the plurality of models and the classes, which are viewable in a hierarchical format on a graphical user interface;
• program instructions to receive input from a user comprising a selection of at least one of the models or the classes via the graphical user interface based on the one or more objects derived from the of the recorded knowledge;
• program instructions to generate a template including fillable fields comprising the values used to define the graphical content of the selected model or classes for the scenario specific details, such that the template provides the graphical content incorporated with the one or more objects derived from of the recorded knowledge;
• program instructions to receive the values as input in the fillable fields, wherein the values provide information for the scenario specific details, comprising definitions and actions for the one or more objects;
• and
• program instructions to save the scenario specific details in the standardized XML schema such that an XML feed including the standardized XML schema is automatically generated for use by a gaming layer, wherein the gaming layer uses the automatically generated XML feed to prepare a gaming engine for producing a learning game,
• wherein the program instructions are stored on the tangible computer readable storage memory.