147 <-  &  ,   - ’   -   #-- 2- Junia Coutinho Anacleto, Alessandro José Francisco Carlos, Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho, Ana Luiza Dias Advanced Interaction Laboratory – LIA Federal University of São Carlos – UFSCar Rod. Washigton Luis KM 235 – São Carlos – SP – Brazil {junia, alessandro_carlos, fabiano, ana_dias}@dc.ufscar.br + Considering computer/aided education, the creation of educational content is still a hard task for teachers. Computational tools are necessary to support authors in creating suitable material for learners from different cultures, allowing effective learning. Aiming to help teachers with such hard task of generating contextualized content to stimulate learners from different places and communities to engage into their own apprenticeship, it has been under development a computational tool called Cognitor,a content editor supported by cultural knowledge expressed on common sense. This paper presents a usability test on Cognitor and discusses preliminary evaluations on it. !  7  K.3.1 Computer Uses in Education H.5 Information Interfaces and Presentation 0  Design, Human Factors, Standardization. 5’% Common sense, Learner’s Context, E/learning, Learning Material, Patterns, Framework. 9.+" The increasing use of computers in education has made teachers face with some new challenges, since lots of them are not proficient in using computers and not used to the new educational approaches which computers made available, such as e/Learning, on/line Distance Learning and so forth. It happens especially to teachers in developing countries, the main focus of this research. It is necessary to think about several issues such as transposing learning material from the paper/based to the computer/based world and developing new teaching techniques to allow students, sometimes distant from teachers, to learn efficiently. Taking into account the facilities offered by the Internet, it is likely to think of producing learning content to be delivered on it. Therefore, it is important to provide tools to support the generation of web/based learning material, especially because teachers are not expected to know how to design hyper documents in order to elaborate the content they want to teach. Nowadays, it can be found several WYSIWYG authoring tools for designing and publishing web content that can be used for producing learning content to be delivered electronically. However, in order to support teachers effectively in their tasks of generating quality and contextualized learning material, those tools are not enough. It is necessary to offer teachers tools that allow them to reach pedagogical issues, such as the ones related to the diversification of the learning target group with whom teachers are going to interact. It is more and more common teachers to interact with learners from different culture with different needs. Common sense knowledge, i.e. a kind of non/expert knowledge that describes the culture of a certain social group in a certain age [2] [12], can tell teachers about the learners’ reality so that they can fit the learning process to it. Moreover computers can make this kind of knowledge available to teachers [1][2][11]. This way, it has been under development a framework called Cognitor, a common sense/aided authoring tool for producing web/based learning material, based on Cog/Learn Pattern Language that aims to guide teachers in producing quality learning material for e/Learning [3]. This paper is organized as follows: section 2 presents Cognitor; section 3 shows a comparison between Cognitor and other web/ based learning material authoring tools; section 4 describes a usability test in which users have composed an hyper document using Cognitor to be used as learning material and discusses its results; finally, section 5 presents the conclusions remarks and points to some future works concerning the tool. :.0+ 6   ,, , #,+0 ,+# ,+ Cognitor is an authoring tool, based on the e/Learning Pattern Language Cog/Learn [3]. Its main objective is to support teachers in designing and editing quality learning material to be delivered electronically to students on the Internet or on CD/DVD. It aims to facilitate the development of accessible and usable learning Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. SIGDOC'08, September 22–24, 2008, Lisbon, Portugal. Copyright 2008 ACM 978/1/60558/083/8/08/0009...$5.00.