Context Based Educational Content Management

Online educational applications are more and more requested to provide self-consistent learning offers for students at the university level. Consequently they need to cope with the wide range of complexity and interrelations university course teaching brings along. An urgent need to overcome page bound content becomes apparent. In the present paper we discuss concepts of constructing, authoring, processing and linking educational content components within their semantic contexts and introduce its implementation on the storage and runtime layer. Starting from cells content is annotated and structured according to standardised didactic needs, adaptive to learning requirements, dynamically decorated with hyperlinks and, as all works are based on XML, open to any presentation layer. Our content management approach is based on the more general Multimedia Information Repository MIR. and allows for personalisation, as well. MIR is an open system supporting the standards XML, Corba and JNDI.