The LASAD project ("Learning to Argue: Generalized Support Across Domains”) aims at creating a generalized framework and methodology for the construction of argumentation support systems to help students learn argumentation in different domains. The realization of this goal will involve the research of a reusable ontology of argumentation learning objects, a large set of visual, analytic, and pedagogic components that can be combined in different fashions to create different domain-specific argumentation tutoring systems, and the research of an interoperable software system architecture, not specific to a particular domain, that allows the flexible integration of the different researched methods and components.
Project website:
http://lasad.dfki.de/