Use of electronic teaching materials (e-material) to support teaching is a trend. e-Material design is therefore
an important issue. Currently, most e-material providers over a package of solutions for divergent purposes.
However, not all teachers and learners need everything from a single package. A preferable
alternative is to Wind useful material from divergent packages and combine them for a particular course. Currently,
most educators collect the material manually, which is time-consuming and may result in missed
material. In this paper, we describe a system – the Teaching-Material Design Center, which follows the standard
of Sharable Content Object Reference Model – to separate e-material for use as teaching templates
and learning objects and to label the material with use of semantic metadata for searching. This system can
Wind existing teaching templates and learning objects for e-material designers and provide a convenient environment
for constructing customized e-material for divergent requirements. We describe the implementation
and evaluation of the proposed system for a course. Our system is ancient in Wending teaching templates and
learning objects and shortening the e-material development process.
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Keywords: Authoring tools and methods; E-material; Course template; Learning object semantic metadata; SCORM