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...

In 2009, the Dutch government launched the Wikiwijs project to increase the use, development and sharing of digital learning materials. Wikiwijs mainly offers Open Educational Resources (OER) through a freely accessible website. Although not all resources are freely available, most of Wikiwijs’s learning materials are published under an open licence. Even though part of the educational resource...

To choose suited resources for personal competence development in the vast amount of open educational resources is a hard task for a learner. This contribution introduces positioning and navigation as services that support learners in finding suited learning activities and resources for learning. 1 Current Situation and Context Although the availability of open educational resources is increasi...