Abstract
This paper presents the main operations and technologies implemented in the framework of the EU funded COSMOS project. COSMOS introduces an advanced web repository which allows teachers and students to search, retrieve, access educational content and re-use educational material for creating earning activities through a specifically designed web interface incorporating innovative technological solutions. The repository is based on an IEEE LOM representation of the content which supports educational scenarios and learning activities as well. The architecture also supports tools for describing and managing digital content rights, which are interoperably represented using the Creative Commons Rights Expression Language (ccREL).
Highlights
At the European Council in Lisbon in March 2000, the European Union set itself the ambitious objective of becoming “the most competitive and dynamic knowledgebased economy in the world”
The penetration of innovative technological applications with Internet access in education may facilitate the accomplishment of this goal
Today Rapid Application Development (RAD)-Agile is a standard development strategy mainly due to the wide variety of available tools that support it. These tools are platforms of different technologies and ready to be used as modules. Tools of this type that better suit the purposes of the COSMOS Portal are called Content Management Systems (CMS)
Summary
At the European Council in Lisbon in March 2000, the European Union set itself the ambitious objective of becoming “the most competitive and dynamic knowledgebased economy in the world”. It is quite difficult to find multimedia content which describes the first Newton’s law appropriate for the first classes of high school To overcome this difficulty, recently, many educational repositories have been developed with the purpose of archiving educational materials and organizing them under an intelligent framework, which will make them accessible and searchable from interested users (e.g., teachers/pupils). The data in Dspace are not stored based on a structured, sophisticated framework, making content access not efficient, especially in case that a huge amount of information is stored in the repository Another interesting attempt is the Colorado educational simulator, over which a set of virtual educational scenarios are graphically created to present different physical laws [7], [8].
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