Aug 2005: Course Content Dictionary for sharing on-line educational materials

A Course Content Dictionary (CCD) describes the topics covered in a mathematics course in a tree like form. With the CCD an author can classify the produced materials and share them with other instructors who can browse through the classification to search for suitable content for their courses. It also enables a collaboration to produce a basic mathematics course as each author can concentrate on specific topics. We believe that such a classification works very well for mathematics because basic courses are quite similar across different universities and high schools but it is of course applicable for other disciplines as well.