Flexible course definitions by using of predefined description of elements

High number of approaches and methods has been developed in the course of attempts to establish higher education programs on the Internet. The most frequent difficulties emerge from not enough systematic descriptions and restriction of implementation of the teaching and learning processes to administrative methods. Although, application methods from object modeling are promising, appropriate representations of related objects and their implementation in real teaching and learning environments are still under development. In this paper, the authors discuss some practice oriented aspects of object modeling based course description. They evaluate recent methods and propose implementation principles and practice. Cooperating functions for structured course, matching demands and description, possibilities for supporting customization of course model, and integration of course development and handling functionalities with engineering environments are issues in the organization of the paper.