Authoring learning resources is a time consuming and difficult task. In this project, we focused on the question how lecturers with no or little knowledge of the technical details of learning resources and metadata standards can be supported while collecting content for their courses. Firstly, to be accepted by the users, this activity needs to integrate in their usual work-flow, without imposing additional load. Secondly, student research assistants should be able contribute to the collected resources, too. A third constraint was imposed by the organizational factors: any solution needed to be integrated in the learning management system used by the participating organization (the distant university of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, NEC).