Reconfigurability: Creating new courses from existing learning objects will always be difficult!

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 440-448

  Tompsett, C ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cliques; Complexity; Course construction; Hamiltonian paths; Learning objects; Mathematical; Metadata; NP complete; Reconfigurability; Reusable; Semantic Web

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144511204     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2005.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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