Learning Object Repositories for Science Education: The Case of the OpenScienceResources Repository

Author

Sampson, Demetrios G. ; Zervas, Panagiotis ; Sotiriou, Sofoklis

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2011

fDate

6-8 July 2011

Firstpage

358

Lastpage

359

Abstract

Efficient search and retrieval of science education resources available in web-based repositories, depends on their educational metadata. Although the IEEE LOM Standard is the commonly accepted way for describing educational resources with metadata, it is beyond its scope to directly support the description of educational resources with Science Education related metadata. Thus, in this paper we propose a Science Education Learning Objects Educational Metadata Application Profile that can be used for tagging science education resources and we present its application to a Science Education Learning Object Repository, namely, the OpenScienceResources Repository.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; meta data; natural sciences computing; search problems; IEEE LOM standard; OpenScienceResources repository; Web-based repository; object repository learning; science education learning object repository; science education related metadata; science education resource retrieval; Conferences; Education; Guidelines; Object recognition; Tagging; Taxonomy; Vocabulary; Application Profile; Educational Metadata; Learning Object Repository; Science Education;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens, GA

ISSN

2161-3761

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-209-7

Electronic_ISBN

2161-3761

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2011.111

Filename

5992343