Title: Edukalibre: a tool for collaborative creation of educational material

Authors: Luis Lopez, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Diego Chaparro, Teofilo Romera, Luis Canas

Addresses: Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones (GSyC), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/Tulipan s/n, 28933 Mostoles (Madrid), Spain. ' Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones (GSyC), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/Tulipan s/n, 28933 Mostoles (Madrid), Spain. ' Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones (GSyC), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/Tulipan s/n, 28933 Mostoles (Madrid), Spain. ' Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones (GSyC), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/Tulipan s/n, 28933 Mostoles (Madrid), Spain. ' Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones (GSyC), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/Tulipan s/n, 28933 Mostoles (Madrid), Spain

Abstract: Libre Software, with its characteristics and its particular development model, has promoted the birth of a novel set of team work methodologies. In this direction, the Edukalibre project imports and adapts those methodologies to apply them to the creation and management of educational contents. With this purpose, we have developed a system, which provides users with mechanisms for the collaborative authoring of documents. The system automatically converts to and from a wide variety of document formats, including editable ones like DocBook/XML, OpenOffice.org and LaTeX, and printable formats like PDF, postscript and HTML.

Keywords: architectures; web-based education; education delivery environments; collaborative development; learning materials; Libre Software development models; open source software; version control systems; collaboration; online education; e-learning; online learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCEELL.2007.013227

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 2007 Vol.17 No.1, pp.15 - 32

Published online: 12 Apr 2007 *

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