The use of e-learning environments to support teaching and learning has had great impact on the way content is developed and managed. In most cases, both teachers and students have had to re-adapt the way they prepare, access and engage with educational matter. The adjustment in human mechanisms for organising and interacting with educational content has become necessary due to the re-mediation...

In this paper we describe an ontology and rule based system that significantly increases the productivity of those who create metadata, and the quality of the metadata they produce. The system suggests values for metadata elements using a combination of four methods: inheritance, aggregation, content based similarity and ontology-based similarity. Instead of aiming for automated metadata genera...

The term Learning Object, first popularized by Wayne Hodgins in 1994 when he named the CedMA working group "Learning Architectures, APIs and Learning Objects", has become the Holy Grail of content creation and aggregation in the computer-mediated learning field. The terms Learning Objects (LOs) and Reusable Learning Objects are frequently employed in uncritical ways, thereby reducing them to me...

In this paper, we describe a system that generates suggested values for metadata elements. The system significantly increases the productivity of metadata creators as well as the quality of the metadata. The system is applicable to any metadata standard both for single metadata records and collections of related metadata records. Instead of aiming for automated metadata generation we have devel...

Preliminary Remark Anyone dealing with the development of modular multimedia learning systems who has had frequent recourse to the metadata drafts of Ariadne (Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks of Europe; http://ariadne.unil.ch), IEEE LOM (Learning Objects Metadata project group of IEEE; http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/ltsc/wg12), or other institutions, can't he...

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...

Im E-Learning-Bereich hat sich in den letzten Jahren das Erfassen von Metadaten zu Lernressourcen etabliert. Diese sollen das Finden und Wiederverwenden von Lernressourcen ermöglichen. Werden die Metadatensätze in einer Datenbank gespeichert, so können sie leicht durchsucht werden. Doch durch die Komplexität von hierfür etablierten Metadatenstandards fällt das Speichern der Datensätze in herköm...

This paper presents the work of the KOD European project for maintaining instructional information in learning objects meta-data, so that they can be easily reused for the manual and automatic construction of courses. 1. Learning Objects and Learning Objects Meta-Data Learning objects currently lead other candidates for the position of choice in the next generation of instructional design, deve...

The high costs for developing learning objects for electronic media demand the production of reusable learning content. To reach this goal, standards which are supported and accepted by software manufacturers are needed. Some initiatives (AICC, ARIADNE, IMS, IEEE-LTSC) develop specifications to unite them in one standard. The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) initiative summarizes the results...

Metadata for E-Learning has existed for several years. Currently several widely implemented e-learning metadata standards exist including IEEE Learning Object Metadata (IEEE-LOM), SCORM, IMS, and GEM. The presentation will provide an overview of the major elearning metadata initiatives, with a focus on the Gateway to Educational Materials, whose foundation is Dublin Core metadata, and the activ...