Authoring and Maintaining of Educational Applications on the Web

The presented paper clarifies the current situation at the field of the authoring and maintaining of educational applications on the Web. The paper lists well-known problems concerning the design of educational applications in general, as well as specific problems connected with educational applications meant to be published on the Web. Some comparison of widely used methods for authoring and maintaining of educational applications on the Web is, on the hand of method's advantages and disadvantages, presented as well. Thus, we propose a new approach to this specific problematic, that we believe, solves a number of problems related to the theme. This new approach to the authoring and maintaining of educational applications on the Web is based on the concept of hypermedia composites, so this concept we explain in details. This paper is accepted as a full paper at the ED-MEDIA99 Conference