A Cooperative Environment for E-Learning Authoring

This article presents a cooperative environment for e-learning authoring, which allows the cooperation between educators and technical people in order to create material for e-learning courses. Our approach while building this environment was to use mainly web standards, like XML, SMIL, SVG and WebDAV, and open software. We combine some features like awareness and workflow to allow the cooperation between authors, without using for this any complex groupware structure. The result is a simple and low cost environment, ideal for low budget institutions