The Design And Development Of XML Based High-Quality Course Website's Online Production System

With the development of China's higher education by leaps and bounds, trying to improve student's quality in colleges and universities has been drawing attention from all spheres of our society. From April 2003, as the pre-launch item of Quality Project, High-Quality Courses construction has been started by various colleges and universities in China. In the 2007 No. 1 Document, the Secretary for Higher Education of the Ministry Education explicitly put forward that we should continue to promote the High-Quality Courses construction project. But at present, the research on technology of the High-Quality Course Website's Production is relatively weak in the national wide, which is not conducive to the sharing and dissemination of the excellent education resources in High-Quality Course Website.We strive to resolve the existing problems by the High-Quality Course Website's Online Production System based on XML. This system provides the users three kind of means. For the general users, it provides an online visual editor which has a friendly interface and is easy to use; for the others who want to produce an especial High-Quality Course Website; this system provides the XML documents-based producing mean and the SWF file-based producing mean. Flash technology is adopted by the High-Quality Course Website which is made by this system. Different from the traditional HTML pages, Flash site can effectively play the advantages in Flash animation production and multimedia show. Accordingly, it can promote the dissemination effects of the High-Quality Course. In addition, we can also easily produce teaching resources with SCORM standards by flash technology, which is conducive to reusing and sharing. XML-based data storage and description mean can not only make the updates of the course content convenient and improve the efficiency of information retrieval, but also can make the course content and other Teaching Management System's resources integrate deeply, which is conducive to sharing in the educational resources.This paper introduced the policy and the construction status of the High-Quality Courses construction project. On the basis of analyzing the demand of the High-Quality Course Website's production system, the author designed the system's functional structure, descripted fully the core technology of developing the High-Quality Course Website's online visual editor and the High-Quality Course Website's structure.Finally, the author summarized the work of this research, and made the further prospects.