Open educational resources have been the promise of providing people with high quality learning resources. Initiatives such as MIT OpenCourseWare, MERLOT and others have shown the real possibilities of creating and sharing knowledge through Internet. We indeed live in an age of content abundance, and content can be considered as infrastructure for building adaptive and personalized learning pat...

Finding effectively open educational resources and open courseware that are the most relevant and that have the best quality for a specific user’s need, in a particular context, becomes more and more demanding. Hence, even though teachers and learners (enrolled students or self-learners as well) get to a greater extent support in finding the right educational resources, they still cannot rely o...

Recent efforts in the area of learning technology have resulted in a considerable improvement in the interoperability of digital education resources. On the basis of sharing and integration of digital educational resources, knowledge Processing and service considers the Semantic knowledge extraction of metadata of educational resources, Construction ontology for educational resources, and combi...

In order to exchange learning resources via educational mediators, resources need to be described with metadata in a coherent manner. Metadata for learning resources has become a widely discussed research topic, but the concept is still too loosely defined to provide guidelines for its use. With this paper we aim to contribute to the design of metadata models, which serve as vehicles for defini...

The social environments based on the Web 2.0 paradigm have modified the way people behave on the Web. One of the direct consequences of this change is that the amount of online resources produced and shared by users has increased considerably. Amongst them, it is possible to find materials that can be exploited for educational purposes. For example, YouTube, Flickr, Slideshare, more and more of...

There are many works in TEL literature aiming to support learners and educators in their educational tasks. A current trend in this field is to develop expert systems and agents able to retrieve the most appropriate educational material. Such systems are great when handling pools of resources specifically designed for education, where the material is associated to educational data about the cha...

Educational metadata are attracting increasing attention, since they can facilitate the description, indexing, searching and retrieving on-line learning objects and educational resources. This paper describes the difficulties raised in retrieving educational resources from the Web, and discusses the current state-of-theart in educational metadata technologies and the advantages of their use. Th...

background: awareness about the actual information needs is a necessity in correct decision making for developing or improvement of information centers. this study aimed on investigating the information needs of students and university professors of birjand university of medical sciences. methods: in this descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2009, 422 students were selected based on system...