Abstract
Self-directed learning in hyperspace requires learners to self-regulate their learning process. In particular, planning the navigation paths is one of the important self-regulation activities. However, it would be quite hard for learners to accomplish navigation planning in case they could not obtain information necessary for navigation planning from a learning resource such as Web-based learning resource. Our approach to this issue is to author such information from Web-based learning resources to attach it to them as metadata. This paper discusses what kind of information is necessary for navigation planning, and proposes an authoring method including metadata description with XML. This paper also demonstrates an authoring support system, which aims at reducing authoring load by extracting the information for navigation planning from the Web-based learning resource to present it to the author.
