Content Management
Web platforms
Web 2.0

On conclusion of this course, students must be able to:
- recognize the role and importance of content management in the context of the construction of the information and knowledge society;
- identify the main techniques, methodologies and tools for content management in web scenarios;
- apply content management techniques to build networked informational and comunicational spaces;
- analyse a learning context and design an online environment that is adequate to the situation under analysis.

1. Contents: formats and structure;

1.1 Markup
1.2 SGML
1.3 XML

2. Content management;

2.1 Content vs. Presentation (design)
2.2 Content lifecycle
2.3 Information architecture: Metadata, ontologies/taxonomies
2.4 Reusability and interoperability: Web services

3. Content Management Systems;

3.1 Infrastructure
3.2 Access control
3.3 Search
3.4 Workflows

4. Learning Management Systems

4.1 Learning activities
4.2 Comunication mechanisms
4.3 Assessment devices

- Boiko, Bob (2001). Content Management Bible, John Wiley & Sons.
- Welles, Martin (2007). Virtual Learning Environments: Using, Choosing and Developing your VLE, Routledge.
- Suh P., Addey D., Thiemeke D., Ellis J. (2002). Content Management Systems (Tools of the Trade).
- Rosenfeld L., Morville P. (2002). Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, O'Reilly.
- Rosenberg M. (2000). E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age, McGraw-Hill.

E-learning

Evaluation is made on individual basis and it involves the coexistence of two modes: continuous assessment (60%) and final evaluation (40%). Further information is detailed in the Learning Agreement of the course unit.