Claims

OMNIBUS/SMARTIES is, to the authors' knowledge, the only authoring system that does not favor one learning/instructional theory over another

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · design r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · checked against its sources 2026-10-27 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

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q2 i? The authors state that OMNIBUS-based authoring does not constrain or favor any particular theory, making it, to their knowledge, unique among authoring systems. → Mizoguchi 2015

Evidence

Mizoguchi 2015

Mizoguchi, R., & Bourdeau, J. (2015). Using Ontological Engineering to Overcome AI-ED Problems: Contribution, Impact and Perspectives. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-015-0077-5

q2 · i? · design · r2

The authors' own characterization of OMNIBUS/SMARTIES in their retrospective, reporting that "OMNIBUS has 99 ways of goal decomposition extracted from 11 theories/models". The statement is the authors' assertion, not an external evaluation; no comparative test of other authoring systems is reported.

"In this sense, it is the first and, to our knowledge, the only authoring system that does not constrain or favor one theory over another."

Discussion

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type claim
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title OMNIBUS/SMARTIES is, to the authors' knowledge, the only authoring system that does not favor one learning/instructional theory over another
description OMNIBUS/SMARTIES is, to the authors' knowledge, the only authoring system that does not favor one learning/instructional theory over another
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 2015
source_checked 2026-10-27
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-27
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sources 1 — mizoguchi-2015

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