Towards flexible learning object metadata

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 50-63

  Brooks, Christopher ^a,b   McCalla, Gord ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Laboratory for Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES)   (Canada)

^c International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society (IAIED)   (Canada)

^d Pan canadian Learning Object Repository Research Network (LORNET)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agent; e learning; Ecological; Learning object; Metadata; Negotiation; Semantic Web; Standards

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECOLOGY; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AGENT; E-LEARNING; ECOLOGICAL; LEARNING OBJECT; NEGOTIATION; SEMANTIC WEB;

METADATA;

EID: 33644607448     PISSN: 15604624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCEELL.2006.008917     Document Type: Article

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