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Abstract

Extensible Markup Language (XML) has been one of the most dominant research concepts in information exchange during recent years. Almost in every area of information technologies XML-based applications utilized to gain the advantages associated with XML and related technologies. Also in education world, XML has provided the great advantages such as shareability, reusability, durability and interoperability in-and-between technology enhanced learning and teaching systems. Researches and implementations on the use of XML in teaching and learning have mainly been focused on the development of learning objects, content packaging and learning systems design. Although it is one possible use of XML, limited number of research works has been done on the use of XML-based syllabi within e-learning platforms. In this study, preparing online course syllabi as XML documents is discussed and an authoring tool which has been built with XML, XSL, HTML, Javascript and MS ASP is introduced for demonstrating the flexibilities of XML-based syllabi as a sample framework.