Improving Learning Object Description Mechanisms to Support an Integrated Framework for Ubiquitous Learning Scenarios

This paper describes an approach to provide an integrated support for learners across a variety of ubiquitous learning activities, including mobile scenarios. Artefacts generated by students using tools in different devices and localizations are stored in a learning object repository (LOR), enabling search, distribution and reuse of the students´ results and products in other tools. As metadata is a key factor for the retrieval task, a framework adaptable to a diversity of tools and capable of auto-metadocumenting the objects in terms of the tools and LOR´s context is discussed, as well as wrapping methods for automatically reify data into objects, for those tools with limited or null interoperability with the LOR