Abstract: A method of providing an electronic curriculum system is described. The method includes providing editable audio-visual assets and providing automated tools for authoring an audio-visual asset, where the authoring includes editing editable audio-visual assets and contributed audio-visual assets into authored audio-visual assets. The editable audio-visual assets can be segmented to facilitate convenient editing. In some cases the segments are intelligently tagged. The intelligent tags assist the efficient searching of the editable assets. The editable assets can be provided by an asset provider over the Internet. Authored assets can be made available for others by uploading the assets onto the servers of the asset provider. Alternatively, hyper-links can be provided to the authored assets. Reasonable review and quality control is exercised over the authored assets by the asset provider before providing access to these authored assets by others.

Abstract: Interactive media such as a DVD can be created in more than one location. The editing of the content into chapters and the creation of menus that can access the content can be created at one location, and information regarding the menus and the chapters can then be transmitted to a second location and the DVD or other media can be recorded at the first or second location. A software driven system controls, accelerates and simplifies the process.