eLXa: An Authoring Tool for the development Digital Education Resources

Abstract

Current development of educational resources for an online learning context has shown important shortcomings in answering the emerging teaching requests. The main objective of this study was to design a new authoring tool that could meet the needs of the eLearning sector that have become evident in the last decade. Additionally, the purpose was to guarantee the fulfillment of the accessibility principles in education. In order to guarantee accessibility to the system it is imperative that the teaching resources are able to adapt to the specific needs of individuals as well as to different technological demands.

Keywords

• eLearning
• accessibility
• authoring tool
• resources
• digitals
• Material Design
• progressive enhancement