Comparison of tagging in an educational context: Any chances of interplay?

International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 111-131

  Vuorikari, Riina ^a,d   Põldoja, Hans ^b,c   Koper, Rob ^d  

^a European Schoolnet   (Belgium)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Educational resources; Folksonomies; Knowledge sharing; Metadata; Repositories; Reuse; Tagging systems; Tags

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857348345     PISSN: 17535255     EISSN: 17535263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2010.031263     Document Type: Article

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