Interactive Courseware for Teaching Field Theory

 Today lectures often are accompanied by web publications of the courses where students can recapitulate the material enriched by additional information and links. For technical fields, complex mathematical formulas have to be published on the web, up to now a problem. We present a new course management system that uses new techniques of web based publishing like MathML in order to display mathematical formulas as text and not as images. This courseware is as well enhanced by new pedagogical approaches like concept maps for improving and clearifying the process of comprehension and Wiki forums besides classical forums that allow for a better collaboration between students themselves and also collaboration with teachers. We present our approach to the above cited challenges and a prototype environment that complies with them, offering new ways for collaborative work. Index Terms  MathML, Distributed Work, Web-based Teaching.