Authors:
Ana-Elena Guerrero
and
Julià Minguillón
Affiliation:
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Keyword(s):
E-learning, competencies, metadata, learning design, standards, LOM, IMS-LD, ontologies.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Authoring Tools and Content Development
;
Case-Studies and Applications
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning Standards and Tools
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Instructional Design
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
Abstract:
In this paper we describe a proposal for standardizing the concept of competency in a repository of learning
objects, by means of an extension of the LOM and the IMS-LD standards, and the use of ontologies for ensuring
consistency is also outlined. Following the recommendations from the Bologna Process, we identify the
competencies required and developed by means of the current learning resources and formative and evaluation
activities in a virtual e-learning environment and, using the most important taxonomies defined for such purposes
in the literature, we identify the necessary metadata to describe the competencies related to such learning
resources and activities. We discuss the process of shifting from content based metadata to competency based
metadata, and we present an example of improving the description of learning resources by adding metadata
for describing competencies, using a real case at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.