Learners' perceptions on the importance of learning object metadata for relevance judgement

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 283-294

  Balatsoukas, Panos ^a   Garoufallou, Emmanouel ^b   Morris, Anne ^c   O'Brien, Ann ^c   Asderi, Stella ^d   Siatri, Rania ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d American College of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Educational technology; Information retrieval; Information seeking; Learning object metadata; Relevance judgement; Surveys; User studies

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; STUDENTS; SURVEYING; SURVEYS;

EDUCATIONAL METADATA; INFORMATION SEEKING; LEARNERS' PERCEPTIONS; LEARNING OBJECT METADATA; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; RELEVANCE JUDGEMENT; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; USER STUDY;

METADATA;

EID: 84872825121     PISSN: 17442621     EISSN: 1744263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2012.051490     Document Type: Article

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