Ranking metrics and search guidance for learning object repository

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 250-264

  Yen, Neil Y ^a   Shih, Timothy K ^b   Chao, Louis R ^c   Jin, Qun ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

CORDRA; distance learning.; information retrieval; learning object repository; LOM; ranking metrics; reusability tree; search guidance; social feedback

Indexed keywords

CORDRA; DISTANCE LEARNING; LEARNING OBJECT REPOSITORY; LOM; RANKING METRICS; SEARCH GUIDANCE; SOCIAL FEEDBACKS;

FEEDBACK; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METADATA; REUSABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 79955721149     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2010.15     Document Type: Article

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