Platform-independent KML Editor for Creating E-Learning Modules based on XML

The chair of Operating Systems of Chemnitz University of Technology participated in a joint project “Knowledge Workshop Computing Systems”. As a result, twelve universities across Germany created a total of 145 e-learning modules for the subject of Technical Computer Science. Experiences from this project – in terms of creation of modules based on XML as well as from use in presence teaching at schools – initiated a second project creating a WYSIWIG editor based on the idea of Mr. Volker Fickert, a member of the chair. It also allowed teachers creating learning modules who are not skilled in using XML directly. Experiences from the first project were published in [3]. This paper presents the WYSIWIG editor KML which has been implemented in Java. The editor uses a special markup language named .The paper presents experiences from using this editor for creating elearning content in schools, colleges and professional schools in the Federal State of Saxony in Germany.