XEDU, a XML-based framework for developing didactic resources

Modern educational applications are using the Web as a medium to enhance the learning process. One of the more promising Web technologies is based on using XML as a way to structure the information items and to represent the multiple relationships between them. This paper presents XEDU as a framework that uses XML for organising and developing didactic resources. The proposed framework provides a set of abstract didactic structures and the interface to associate them either to XML-based contents and other complex didactic resources. The final goal is to help instructors to develop their own didactic resources which can be easily managed.