Model of Learning Objects Exchange between LCMS Platforms through Intelligent Agents1

Paulo Alonso Gaona García,Carlos Enrique Montenegro Marin,Elvis Eduardo Gaona García

doi:10.11144/javeriana.iyu19-2.mloe

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Abstract

Currently, there are a variety of digital resources hosted on the Internet, based on access points such as digital libraries and repositories. The majority of strategies to store information are used by specialized documentation centers, academic institutions, and databases of regional development policies. These entities have been directing their efforts to improve the access over a collection of digital resources for academic and professional purposes. There is still a lot of educational material that is hosted on content management tools known as Learning Content Management System (LCMS); however, those tools do not perform the corresponding indexing of digital resources for the use of repositories. In fact, this requirement reduces the access to digital resources even from the inside of each academic institution, losing coverage and recognition in other learning environments. Moreover, this factor also limits the enrichment and linking of related academic material. Then, strategies such as Linked Data cannot be extensively used to share digital resources. Therefore, this article aims to devise an indexing strategy to manage digital resources hosted in different LCMS by defining services that facilitate the exchange of digital resources and their reuse. Case Study: Efront and Moodle platforms.

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The semantic Web is one of the initiatives that over the course of its development has endeavored to simplify the access to relevant information
There is still a lot of educational material that is hosted on content management tools known as Learning Content Management System (LCMS); those tools do not perform the corresponding indexing of digital resources for the use of repositories
The results presented show the valuations made by participants about the agent performance based on subjective perceptions

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The semantic Web is one of the initiatives that over the course of its development has endeavored to simplify the access to relevant information. This development has been supported by the collaborative effort of hundreds of groups on the Internet and organizations such as W3C, in order to improve and define the communication models that obtain the support and management of information on the Web in an efficient way Following this approach, and under the proposal defined by the very founder of Internet, Tim Berners Lee [1], new alternatives have been raised to share and access to these relevant resources through the connection of Linked data. Due to the release of this initiative to share and publish several digital resource descriptions, as defined from its metadata, Europeana collects one of the major content suppliers in European cultural heritage [6], which establishes it as one of the larger initiatives to share and reuse digital resources for educational purposes All these proposals have in common the use of learning objects and their connection through Linked data. This initiative improves the searching process from specialized vocabulary and enriched languages to Simple Knowledge Organization Scheme (SKOS) [7], [8]

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