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Backgrounding eXe
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The <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic">e</span><span style="font-style: italic">Learning </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic">X</span><span style="font-style: italic">HTML </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic">e</span><span style="font-style: italic">ditor</span>
(eXe) is a web-based authoring environment designed to assist teachers
and academics in the design, development and publishing of web-based
learning and teaching materials without the need to become proficient
in HTML, XML or complicated web-publishing applications.
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The Web is a revolutionary educational tool because it presents
teachers and learners with a technology that simultaneously provides
something to talk about (content) and the means to hold the
conversation (interaction). Unfortunately, the power of this hypertext
medium is constrained in educational settings because the vast majority of teachers and academics do not have the technical skills to
build their own web pages, and must therefore rely on the availability
of web developers to generate professional looking online content. The
eXe is being developed to overcome a number of identified limitations:
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<li>Traditionally web-authoring software entails a steep learning
curve; it is not intuitive and the applications were not designed for
publishing learning content. Consequently teachers and academics have
not adopted these technologies for publishing online learning content.
eXe aims to provide an intuitive, easy-to-use tool that will enable
teachers to publish professional web pages for learning;</li>
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<li>Currently, learning management systems do
not offer sophisticated authoring tools for web content (when compared
to the capabilities of web-authoring software or the skills of an
experienced web developer). eXe is a tool that provides
professional web-publishing capabilities that will be easily referenced
or imported by standards compliant learning management systems; </li>
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<li>Most content management and
learning management systems utilize a centralized web server model thus
requiring connectivity for authoring. This is limiting for authors with
low bandwidth connectivity or no connectivity at all. eXe will be<br />
developed as an offline authoring tool without the requirement for connectivity. </li>
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<li>Many content management and learning
management systems do not provide an intuitive wysiwyg environment
where authors can see what their content will look like in a browser
when published, especially when working offline. eXe will mimic wysiwig
functionality enabling users to see what the content will look like
when published online.</li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Overview of eXe tools<br />
</span>With eXe, users can develop a learning structure that suits their content delivery needs and build a resource that is flexible and easily updated. The Outline pane of eXe's graphical user interface enables users to design an outline that reflects their own preferred hierarchical structure and taxonomy, i.e. topics-sections-units, or books-chapters-verses, etc. This can be established at the outset or can develop as the resource is built. <br />
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The iDevice (instructional device) pane consists of a collection of
structural elements that describe learning content. Some of these
include, objectives, pre-knowledge, case studies, free text. Learning
content is compiled by selecting iDevices from the iDevice menu and
entering your learning content. A learning resource may consist of as
few or as many iDevices as required to deliver the learning content
effectively. New iDevices are in development and recommendations for
additional iDevices are being sought from the wider learning community. An iDevice editor enabling users to
design their own iDevices and templates has been released in an experimental format as work continues on its development.
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eXe offers the ability for users to customise their published content by selecting from a range of graphical style sheets.<br />
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eXe’s Export facility allows content to be packaged in a variety of ways. Learning resources can be packaged as:
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<li>IMS Common Cartridge</li>
<li>IMS Content Package</li>
<li>SCORM 1.2</li>
<li>self-contained web sites</li>
<li>a single web page</li>
<li>simple text file</li>
<li>collection of iPod Notes</li>
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The Common Cartridge, Content Package, and SCORM 1.2 formats allow you to deploy your content into any standards-based learning management system (LMS).
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