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The current state of affair in learning systems in general and in e-learning in particular suffers from a lack of an explicit and adaptable didactic design. Students complain about the insufficient adaptability of e-learning to the learners' needs. Learning content and services need to reach their audience properly. That is, according to their different prerequisites, needs, and different learning conditions. After a short introduction to the storyboard concept, which is a way to address these concerns, we present an example of using storyboards for the didactic design of a university course on Intelligent Systems. In particular, we show the way to express didactic variants and didactic intentions within storyboards. Finally, we sketch ideas to for a machine supported knowledge processing, knowledge evaluation, knowledge refinement, and knowledge engineering with storyboards.

Currently, e-learning systems as well as learning environments are still suffering from a lack of explicit and adaptable didactic design - an issue of quality management. Students complain about insufficient adaptability of e-learning offers to the learners’ needs. This is especially the case in university teaching. University professors are not necessarily experts in the didactics of teaching their subject. As a way out of this dilemma the authors utilize their formerly developed storyboard concept. Storyboards are an explicit representation of a didactic design, which enjoys simplicity, clarity, visual appearance, and the chance for standardized development. Everybody may easily become a storyboard author - a step toward pedagogical engineering. By representing didactics explicitly, learners are supported to find their individually appropriate way. Besides this processing issue, storyboards have the potential to identify successful didactic patterns. This is, in fact, the vision of knowledge discovery in didactics. In the authors' experience, embedding topical content into game adventures appears to be a promising didactic mean when properly linked in a related didactic pattern. The success of the authors' approach is demonstrated by an application to one of the authors' real life courses.