Overview

	The Courseware Authoring and Packaging Environment
	The experimental Learning Management System

The diagram below shows some of the relationships between CAPE and eLMS.  The Flash version can be animated using the controls in the upper right corner.

The infrastructure reflects a separation of concerns between learning materials and how they are used to create a learning experience.  The design specifications created with CAPE are basically "instructions" to some delivery machinery embedded in an eLMS server for how to enact an experience with a learner, potentially performed over multiple sessions. The materials themselves are created with conventional web authoring tools or else repurposed from existing web content. What is essential in this separation is that traditional link-based navigation among content elements is replaced by the learning design itself.  This allows reasoning performed when enacting the design to change when materials are made available to the learner and how they are presented.