The rapid evolution within the context of e-learning is closely linked to international efforts on the standardization of learning object metadata, which provides learners in a web-based educational system with ubiqui...
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(纸本)9783642138027
The rapid evolution within the context of e-learning is closely linked to international efforts on the standardization of learning object metadata, which provides learners in a web-based educational system with ubiquitous access to multiple distributed repositories. This article presents a hybrid agent-based architecture that enables the recovery of learningobjects tagged in learning object metadata (LOM) and provides individualized help with selecting learning materials to make the most suitable choice among many alternatives.
learningobjects (LOs) are pieces of educational material characterized with a valuable amount of information about their content and usage. This additional information is defined as a set of metadata generally follow...
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learningobjects (LOs) are pieces of educational material characterized with a valuable amount of information about their content and usage. This additional information is defined as a set of metadata generally following the IEEE LOM specification. This specification also serves to characterize the relations existing between LOs. LOs whose relations are explicit are regarded as the nodes of a lesson graph. Link types and LO metadata constitute the lesson graph semantics. This article proposes to take advantage of lesson graph semantics using a context diffusion approach. It consists in diffusing the metadata-based processes along the edges of the lesson graph. This technique aims at coping with the metadata processing issues arising when some graph metadata are missing, incorrect, or incomplete. This article also presents a three-layer extensible framework for easing the use of context diffusion in a graph. As part of the framework, two original types of metadata processes are introduced. The first one takes advantage of the metadata attribute similarities between related LOs. The second one focuses on the lesson graph consistency. The framework and the application examples were implemented as an open-source Java library used in the lesson graph authoring tool LessonMapper2. During the lesson authoring process, we show that the framework can bring support not only for generating and validating metadata, but also for retrieving LOs.
This paper reports on the findings of a user study which investigated the effects of structure, highlighting and quantity of information on university students' interaction with metadata surrogates of learning obj...
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This paper reports on the findings of a user study which investigated the effects of structure, highlighting and quantity of information on university students' interaction with metadata surrogates of learningobject repositories (LORs) during the relevance judgement process. The literature review revealed a lack of studies investigating how metadata surrogates should be designed to meet users' needs and improve the effectiveness of relevance judgement. In order to address this issue, different versions of a prototype system, called META-LOR 2, were developed and evaluated in terms of the time needed for users to find relevant information, the accuracy of their relevance judgements and their satisfaction. To evaluate the prototype, a user study was conducted where participants were asked to complete a set of tasks and fill in satisfaction questionnaires. The findings showed that participants performed better and were more satisfied with those versions of the prototype which highlighted metadata elements that included the query terms, used clusters or categories to organize metadata elements in the surrogates and included metadata elements which were relevant to the query or task at hand. The paper concludes with some recommendations for improving the design of metadata surrogates in search result interfaces.
Reusing digital resources for learning has been a goal for several decades, driven by potential time savings and quality enhancements. Although the rapid development of Web-based learning has increased opportunities f...
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Reusing digital resources for learning has been a goal for several decades, driven by potential time savings and quality enhancements. Although the rapid development of Web-based learning has increased opportunities for reuse significantly, managing learningobjects and making them accessible still entails many. challenges. This article presents and analyzes the standards-based Ariadne infrastructure for managing learningobjects in an open and scalable architecture. The architecture supports the integration of learningobjects in multiple, distributed repository networks. The authors capture lessons learned in four architectural patterns.
One of the major obstacles in developing high quality content for learning is the substantial development cost and effort. In addition, the return oil investment is often low, as developed learning materials are diffi...
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(纸本)9783642046353
One of the major obstacles in developing high quality content for learning is the substantial development cost and effort. In addition, the return oil investment is often low, as developed learning materials are difficult to reuse and adapt to new and different educational contexts, In this paper, we present a semi-automatic content assembly methodology to automate, at least partially, the reuse of existing learning content in high quality and effective learning sequences. In addition, we present a case study that integrates the approach into the LAMS learning design environment.
This paper presents some of the lessons that we have learned during our involvement with the development of learning technology standards. We believe that the decision to develop a new standards is sometimes taken too...
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This paper presents some of the lessons that we have learned during our involvement with the development of learning technology standards. We believe that the decision to develop a new standards is sometimes taken too quickly and that, when possible, existing generic standards should be profiled for the domain of learning. At this point in time, the development of tools, technologies, and methodologies that fully exploit the affordances of existing standards is more relevant than the development of new standards. Moreover, we believe that the relationship between technical standardization and research is often misunderstood: The main role of standards for research is to enable a large-scale technological infrastructure that promotes innovation through its open nature.
The SCORM (Sharable Content object Reference Model) specification defines metadata of learningobjects, which are used as the elementary reusable components in distance learning. The CORDRA (Content object Repository ...
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(纸本)9783540781387
The SCORM (Sharable Content object Reference Model) specification defines metadata of learningobjects, which are used as the elementary reusable components in distance learning. The CORDRA (Content object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture) specification provides a common architecture for the resolution, discovery, and sharing of these learningobjects. They define standardized ways in which learningobjects can be discovered and reused by content designers. However, the current CORDRA and the definition of objects in SCORM only allow an object to be copied, updated, and re-organized in a new content aggregation, which is used as a delivery package to end users. This paper proposes a revised CORDRA architecture and a reusability mechanism to make instruction design easier. We propose a structure called a reusability tree for tracking the history of reuse of learningobjects in CORDRA. This paper also defines the notions of similarity and diversity of learningobjects to make easier for users to precisely search for reusable learningobjects, with additional meaningful information to support instruction designs.
Reusing learning materials is an essential issue in developing e-learning content. For this purpose, the concept of Reusable learningobjects (RLOs) has been developed by different organizations, and recently RLOs'...
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(纸本)9781424417513
Reusing learning materials is an essential issue in developing e-learning content. For this purpose, the concept of Reusable learningobjects (RLOs) has been developed by different organizations, and recently RLOs' metadata has been standardized to push up their reusability to its extent. In this paper, we focus on our vision of RLOs that have standard metadata and are stored in repositories. To enable advanced retrieval and browsing operations on RLOs' repositories, we have developed the LORIN model. This new model is based essentially on an Inference Network Retrieval model which is applied generally in Information Retrieval applications. LORIN model has been implemented and tested on a repository of learningobjects that we have developed for pre-university curricula.
Reusing learning materials is an essential issue in developing e-learning content. For this purpose, the concept of Reusable learningobjects (RLOs) has been developed by different organizations, and recently RLOs'...
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Reusing learning materials is an essential issue in developing e-learning content. For this purpose, the concept of Reusable learningobjects (RLOs) has been developed by different organizations, and recently RLOs' metadata has been standardized to push up their reusability to its extent. In this paper, we focus on our vision of RLOs that have standard metadata and are stored in repositories. To enable advanced retrieval and browsing operations on RLOs' repositories, we have developed the LORIN model. This new model is based essentially on an Inference Network Retrieval model which is applied generally in Information Retrieval applications. LORIN model has been implemented and tested on a repository of learningobjects that we have developed for pre-university curricula.
Lesson graphs are composed of learningobjects (LOs) and include a valuable amount of information about the content and usage of the LOs, described by the LO metadata. Graphs also make explicit the links between the L...
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(纸本)9781586037642
Lesson graphs are composed of learningobjects (LOs) and include a valuable amount of information about the content and usage of the LOs, described by the LO metadata. Graphs also make explicit the links between the LOs (i.e. the graph semantics). This article proposes a conceptual model for taking advantage of this information. This model is based on an original diffusion process that copes with the problem of lesson graphs where some metadatas are missing. Two applications of the model are described and were implemented over a previously developed lesson authoring tool whose goal is to facilitate the lesson authoring process.
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