The Objectives of this workshop, which was held on 9th to 19th Feb 2005, was to enable the participants to sharpen their skills in e-content development and at the same time use the skills to immediately convert the course notes which they brought with them into e-learning format. The workshop was therefore, at once a training programme and a forum for e-content development.

Scope and Format

The training programme came shortly after the participants had successfully accomplished a self-learning introductory course on CD entitled “How to develop e-Content”. All the participants were computer-literate and were either science or engineering faculty members in their various universities.

Common client-side tools for web design were covered and were subsequently used to develop the web content.

The workshop, which took 10 days covered the following activities:
- Presentations on e-content development: Objects and process
- Presentation on tools and selection criteria
- Hands-on construction of detailed, structured table of content
- Hands-on development of e-content for CDROM media
- Hands-on rendering of the e-content on the web.

The training was mainly hands-on and concepts were explained through live examples. Each participant was responsible for organizing the course into detailed structure and development of the web content using various tools of choice.

At the end of the workshop the following output was expected from each participant:

- A detailed, structured table of content for a course or module
- A comprehensive portfolio of all the e-content objects for the above detailed structure
- A web-based CDROM e-learning course on the module or course

Further, each participant was expected to be fully equipped with the techniques, principles and processes of eContent development.