Design and implementation of a user friendly environment for the creation of learning objects: CADDIE - Content Automated Design and Development Intgrated Editor

The aim of this paper is giving a description of the CADDIE (Content Automated Design and Developement Integrated Editor), a user friendly authoring tool for the automated production of sharable content objects, mainly oriented to networked learning and learning object design. It is a freely available Open Source application to assist teachers in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML, XML markup or anyother language. Contents produced within the CADDIE environment can be exported in the form of self-contained web pages, LATEX files, standard document formats, or SCORM 2004 packages as well, usable on a LMS server or designed for a database SCO repository. This project has been developed by ELKM (E-Learning & Knowledge Management) laboratory and led by the University of Genoa. © 2008 by Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School.