The e-learning XHTML editor project, eXe for short, is an easy-to-use content authoring program.

How easy? You do not need to be knowledgeable in HTML or XML – or know what those mean, for that matter – to use eXe to generate your own e-learning content which can be put on the web or even accessed from a Learning Management System such as IVLE.

eXe is easy to use becauce of its instructional devices, or iDevices, as they are called. These iDevices are a set of tools which you can use to flesh out learning content. iDevices range from multiple-choice questions to case studies to image galleries.

Once you have chosen an iDevice, eXe lets you enter your learning content, almost like using a wizard, which guides you through the authoring process. While this approach connotes rigidity, eXe breaks the mould as it is flexible enough to help create varied and unique output based on mixing and matching various iDevices to create the pages and sections of your e-learning content.

Also, you can easily tweak the look and feel of your content by applying predefined templates or – if you are technically inclined – by getting your hands dirty and tweaking the stylesheet.

eXe is an open source program which is funded by the Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand. Although it is currently in development, a stable version exists which users can try. As it is open source, users are encouraged to give comments about the software and even to get involved in its development.

You can try eXe by downloading it at exelearning.org.