The standard technology course describes the "off-the-shelf" software that is used together with the web-based toolkit to build a community learning space. The software includes database, eXtensible Markup Language (XML), eXtensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and more. You do not have to know about all of this software in order to build a learning space. It is included to provide background information that you can read to learn more the technology.

The course contains concept pages that summarize a topic together with an associated discussion page that provides more information.

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