Much have been said about metadata which is “data about data” used for classification and retrieval of information. However, metadata is not created by itself. This paper will present the design, interface and implementation of our own metadata tool called Metadata Management System, MMS that was developed to facilitate the creation, maintenance and storage of metadata. This metadata tool suppo...

Collaborative e-learning has a set of characteristics which requires interaction and negotiation among learners and teachers. It also needs support to achieve high-level requirements for learning content and systems such as accessibility, reusability, interoperability and adaptability. The focus of this paper is to investigate three commonly used standards in e-learning which are: SCORM, IMS-LD...

The aim of this contribution is to present the work that the Universidad Industrial de Santander is currently carrying out through the institutional project named ProSPETIC, designed to give support to academic programs using ICTs. The development is based on principles of the instructional engineering considering methods for the design, development and planning of learning systems distribution...

The proliferation of interoperability e-learning specifications raises the need of extending existing e-learning platforms so that they can be used efficiently in a distributed environment where material producers, service providers and users (either learners or teachers) exchange information using standard models. This extension is essential to preserve digital learning material and retain the...

With the rapid development of distance learning and the XML technology, metadata play an important role in e-Learning. Nowadays, many distance learning standards, such as SCORM, AICC CMI, IEEE LTSC LOM and IMS, use metadata to tag learning materials. However, most metadata models are used to define learning materials and test problems. Few metadata models are dedicated to assessment. In this pa...

To increase the interoperability and reusability of learning objects, Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative developed a model called Content Aggregation Model (CAM) to describe learning objects and express relationships between learning objects. However, the suggested relations defined in the CAM can only describe structure-oriented relationships and cannot express semantic relationships bet...

In this paper, we propose an e-Learning system that can accomplish the following two goals; personalization and interactivity. First of all, the system support personalized learning environment and allows learners to participate in their learning. This system can register and inquire for courses using personalized function and provide statistics on progress rate, by contents and learning type. ...