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Downes, Stephen; Shata, Osama; Lin, Fuhua (Oscar); Jamlan, Muain – International Review of Open and Distance Learning, 2001
Describes their essential components of learning objects (any element that might be contained inside a course) and gives a theoretical perspective. Discusses learning objects as they are developed and used in distance education. "A Middle Eastern Perspective" (Shata); " A Chinese Perspective" (Lin); and "A Perspective from…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programming), Course Content, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
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Direct linkBrase, Jan; Painter, Mark – Educational Technology & Society, 2004
Learning Objects Metadata (LOM) aims at describing educational resources in order to allow better reusability and retrieval. In this article we show how additional inference rules allows us to derive additional metadata from existing ones. Additionally, using these rules as integrity constraints helps us to define the constraints on LOM elements,…
Descriptors: Inferences, Metadata, Information Retrieval, Standards
