Spinning interoperable applications for teaching & learning using the simple query interface

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 51-67

  Van Assche, Frans ^a   Duval, Erik ^b   Massart, David ^a   Olmedilla, Daniel ^c   Simon, Bernd ^d   Sobernig, Stefan ^d   Ternier, Stefaan ^b   Wild, Fridolin ^d  

^a European Schoolnet   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c L3S RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^d VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Application Program Interface; Brokerage; Educational mediators; Interoperability; Learning object metadata; Learning Repositories; Querying; Standards; Web Services

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646572860     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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