This paper introduces the Educateca project, a Web 2.0 approach to e-learning. The project refactors SCORM, the de facto e-learning standard, to embrace the two main shifts in Web 2.0: the WOA (Web Oriented Architecture) and the social trends in user involvement. In this new context of the Internet, flexibility is a must and so big and static e-learning content are no longer effective enough. T...

In the field of online learning, development learning objects (LOs) has increased. LOs promote reusing and referencing educational content in various environments. However, despite this progress, lack a conceptual model for sharing suitable between learners makes multiple challenges. regard, multi-label classification plays significant role to make high-quality LOs, which can be accessible reus...

One of the current trends in E-learning is the development of student-activating learning material. In four research projects aiming at the design of high quality learning material, a large body of student-activating learning material is being developed. During the development of this learning material, the limitations of the current generation learning management systems became obvious. The fo...

This study seeks to investigate what influences intelligence in early childhood. The Singapore Cohort Study of the Risk Factors of Myopia (SCORM) is used to assess determinants of childhood IQ and changes in IQ. This longitudinal data set, collected in 1999, includes a wealth of demographic, socioeconomic and prenatal characteristics. The richness of the data allows various econometric approach...

Remote experiments can be shared and exchanged among educational institutions in the form of reusable learning objects. The paper discusses different solutions for authentication and authorization needs when “Lab Learning Objects” are used through the Learning Management System of an institution to run a remote experiment based on physical resources (rigs) provided by an external experiment pro...

The aim of this paper is describing the SCOMaker, a user friendly authoring tool for the automated production of SCOs, mainly oriented to distance learning and learning object design. It is a freely available open source application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML, XML markup or any other language. SCOMaker can expo...

In this paper we are going to show some specific extensions of the AHA! system developed at Córdoba University. AHA! is an open source general-purpose adaptive hypermedia system. We have developed some extensions in two different AHA! versions in order to increase its adaptation power in elearning. In AHA! version 1.0 we added facilities for managing different students’ knowledge levels and we ...

Introduction This study examines existent and new methods for evaluating the success of information retrieval systems. Performance support systems, knowledge management systems, and meta-data schema such as SCORM, IMS, and IEEE LOM are concerned with finding needed information quickly and effectively, whether that information is a learning object, a performance object, or a knowledge object. Ho...

Avicenna Virtual Campus (AVC) is UNESCO-led, multi-cultural EUMEDIS pilot project. It involves partners from sixteen Euro-Mediterranean states. Each partner contributes through a node called Avicenna Knowledge Centre (AKC), which produces e-courses and e-learning objects. For seek of interoperability, partners setup a pedagogical standard to guide the production process of learning objects. Fur...