Share Paper: Collaborative Document Authoring as an E-Learning Component

  1. Nikolai Scerbakov, Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  2. Frank Kappe, Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  3. Vadim Pak, Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russian Federation
Thursday, June 28 2:45 PM-3:15 PM Noord

Abstract: An effective learning management system (LMS) is a vital component of an overall E-Learning infrastructure in universities nowadays. In the simplest case, Learning Management System can be seen as a structured repository of courseware materials provided with additional communication facilities such as discussion forum, annotations, chats, etc. In the more complex cases, LMS implements different training scenarios where communication and collaboration plays a very important role. In this paper, we describe a so-called Authoring Room scenario. The Authoring Room component provides an environment for online collaborative authoring of textual documents. Since many cloud services allow users to edit textual documents ...