Metadata and Knowledge Management driven Web-based Learning Information System towards Web/e-Learning 3.0

Authors

  • Hugo Rego University Of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
  • Tiago Moreira University Of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
  • Erla Morales University Of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
  • Francisco José Garcia University Of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v5i2.1222

Keywords:

e-Learning, Knowledge Management, IMS Specifications, Metadata Management

Abstract


AHKME e-learning system main aim is to provide a modular and extensible system with adaptive and knowledge management abilities for students and teachers. This system is based on the IMS specifications representing information through metadata, granting semantics to all contents in it, giving them meaning. Metadata is used to satisfy requirements like reusability, interoperability and multipurpose. The system provides authoring tools to define learning methods with adaptive characteristics, and tools to create courses allowing users with different roles, promoting several types of collaborative and group learning. It is also endowed with tools to retrieve, import and evaluate learning objects based on metadata, where students can use quality educational contents fitting their characteristics, and teachers have the possibility of using quality educational contents to structure their courses. The metadata management and evaluation play an important role in order to get the best results in the teaching/learning process.

Author Biographies

Hugo Rego, University Of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

Hugo Rego is a PhD Student in Computer Science at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He works as an IT Specialist on the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal. He is a member of the research GRoup in InterAction and eLearning (GRIAL) of the University of Salamanca.

Tiago Moreira, University Of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

Tiago Moreira is a PhD Student in Computer Science at the University of Salamanca, Spain. He works as an IT Specialist on the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal. He is a member of the research GRoup in InterAction and eLearning (GRIAL) of the University of Salamanca .

Erla Morales, University Of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

Erla Morales holds a PhD in Virtual Learning Environments from the University of Salamanca, Spain. She works as an e-learning expert into the ?Virtual Universityâ�?¬ project at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She is a member of the research GRoup in InterAction and eLearning (GRIAL) of the University of Salamanca University.

Francisco José Garcia, University Of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain

Francisco José Garcia holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca, Spain. He works as a Professor of the Computer Science Department at the University of Salamanca. He is the Director of the research GRoup in InterAction and eLearning (GRIAL) of the University of Salamanca.

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Published

2010-06-02

How to Cite

Rego, H., Moreira, T., Morales, E., & Garcia, F. J. (2010). Metadata and Knowledge Management driven Web-based Learning Information System towards Web/e-Learning 3.0. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 5(2), pp. 36–44. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v5i2.1222

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2010)

Section

Papers