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  <name>Courses in Connexions</name>
  <metadata>
  <md:version>2.10</md:version>
  <md:created>2001/09/17</md:created>
  <md:revised>2004/08/04 12:41:10.497 GMT-5</md:revised>
  <md:authorlist>
      <md:author id="richb">
      <md:firstname>Richard</md:firstname>
      <md:othername>G.</md:othername>
      <md:surname>Baraniuk</md:surname>
      <md:email>richb@rice.edu</md:email>
    </md:author>
  </md:authorlist>

  <md:maintainerlist>
    <md:maintainer id="richb">
      <md:firstname>Richard</md:firstname>
      <md:othername>G.</md:othername>
      <md:surname>Baraniuk</md:surname>
      <md:email>richb@rice.edu</md:email>
    </md:maintainer>
  </md:maintainerlist>
  
  <md:keywordlist>
    <md:keyword>demo</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>course</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>course path</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>RDF</md:keyword>
    <md:keyword>CourseComposer</md:keyword>
  </md:keywordlist>

  <md:abstract>Overview of Connexions courses
</md:abstract>
</metadata>

  <content>
    <para id="obsolete">
      <note type="warning">
	The information in this module is outdated. Please see
	<cnxn document="m10288" strength="5">How to Use the Course Composer</cnxn> 
	for the latest information about Connexions courses.
      </note>
    </para>


    <para id="para1">
      <list id="modpoints" type="bulleted">
	<name>Instructors weave modules into courses</name>

	<item>
	  a course is a guided tour through the pool of  
	  <cnxn document="m10887" strength="8">modules</cnxn>
	</item>

	<item>
	  <cnxn document="m10288" strength="5">Course Composer</cnxn> functionalities:

	  <list id="inner">
	    <item>
	      <link src="http://cnx.rice.edu/content/search">search</link> and
	      preview appropriate modules
	    </item>

	    <item>
	      incorporate modules into a <emphasis>course path</emphasis>
	    </item>

	    <item>
	      re-order course path
	    </item>

	    <item>
	      group modules into "chapters"
	    </item>

	    <item>
	      add course-specific "implicit" links
	    </item>

	    <item>
	      export course path as an  
	      <link src="http://www.w3.org/RDF">Resource Description
		Framework</link>
	      (RDF) file (metadata standard)
	    </item>

	  </list>

	</item>
	
      </list>

      <list id="para2" type="bulleted">
	<name>Course path is multipurpose</name>

	<item>
	  <cnxn document="m11837" strength="8">navigational tools</cnxn>
	  and <cnxn document="m10338" strength="8">Roadmap</cnxn> display course 
	  path (look to the left to the "course view")
	</item>

	<item>
	  modules in course path easily fused into a <link src="http://cnx.rice.edu/courses/cnxtutorial/cnxtut.pdf">pdf
	    file</link> for printing as a custom textbook (by student, instructor, 
	  university, or <link src="http://kinkos.com">Kinkos</link>, for
	  example)
	</item>

      </list>

      <list id="list4" type="bulleted">
	<name>Planned additions</name>

	<item>
	  course-specific annotations
	  <!-- <link src='http:// '>annotations</link> -->
	</item>

	<item>
	  segues
	</item>

	<item>
	  side branches off course path
	</item>
	
      </list>
    </para>

  </content>
  
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