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 * Proposal submission #21338**

Open source content editors and SCORM
 * Title**

John Clayton, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand, ctjfc@wintec.ac.nz
 * Presenter(s)**

Educators at all levels are being tasked to design, author and deliver digital learning resources for students. In developing these resources, teachers have available a number of web-authoring tools incorporating, text, graphics, and multi-media applications. However, the sophistication and complexity of using these tools effectively often requires extensive professional development and time. It appears there is a need for simple-to-use, easy-to-learn web-authoring tools to allow teachers to create professional looking digital content.
 * Description**

However, even with simple-to-use, easy-to-learn web-authoring tools the creation of media-rich digital material is not an inexpensive activity. Significant fiscal, human and physical resources are still needed to be allocated for production, storage and delivery. Because of these high costs it would appear sensible the any digital material created could be re-used in a range of settings by multiple users. One of the ways to ensure content can be "shared" is to ensure material created is in SCORM packets.

This workshop will explore three open source SCORM content creation tools (eXe Editor, Reload and Xerte). After the workshop participants will be granted access to an online web-space to further their explorations of the editors.

Workshop Not previously published All audiences
 * Notes & Comments**