ASK-CDM-ECTS: A Tool for Facilitating Common European University Course Description towards Higher Education Integration

Author

Sampson, Demetrios G. ; Zervas, Panayiotis ; Limnatitis, Renos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Digital Syst., Univ. of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

fYear

2009

fDate

15-17 July 2009

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

156

Abstract

In this paper, we present ASK-CDM-ECTS, a Web based authoring environment for describing higher education study programmes and courses, as well as, their educational material, following an application profile of the course description metadata specification (CDM), namely, CDM-ECTS, that supports the specific requirements of the European credit transfer and accumulation system (ECTS).

Keywords

Internet; authoring systems; computer aided instruction; educational courses; ASK-CDM-ECTS; European credit transfer and accumulation system; European university course description; Web based authoring environment; course description metadata specification; higher education integration; Digital systems; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Educational technology; Electrical capacitance tomography; Helium; Informatics; Information retrieval; Packaging; Societies; Course Description Metadata Specification; European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System; Higher Education; IEEE Learning Objects Metadata;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2009. ICALT 2009. Ninth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Riga

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3711-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3711-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2009.125

Filename

5194190