STANDARDIZATION OF METADATA FOR ELECTRONIC EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Metadata Standards for Educational Resources

E ach semester, I create Web-based learning experiences for my students by weaving together digital educational resources or learning objects such as videos, images, assessments, simulations, or tutorials. Often I use previously created material, if only I can find it. One current challenge of distributed learning is creating and managing content to facilitate reuse. Instructors as well as stud...

" Libraries , metadata and preservation of electronic resources "

The Dublin Core and Metadata for Educational Resources

This paper focuses on metadata standards for networked information discovery and retrieval of educational resources. Such standards, if they achieve a high degree of interoperability, will support both extant and emergent e-learning architectures. This paper takes an historical perspective on the formative work of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Education Working Group and explores issues r...

Semantic Metadata for Creating and Describing Educational Resources

Nowadays, web contains a multitude of information sources and knowledge which often are represented as HTML files. These files can be used as educational resources (ERs) or may contain inside (piece of text, image …) important ERs. In this paper we propose an approach that allows us to extract and annotate these resources in order to store them into Learning

Evaluating the Learning Object Metadata for K-12 Educational Resources

The Learning Object Metadata (LOM) is an emerging standard for organizing descriptions of digital or nondigital entities used to support learning. The descriptions include educational, legal, and technical characteristics of these resources. In this paper we describe an application of the LOM to the construction of a database of resources available to public schools in Hawai ì and report on iss...