1. Distributed Repositories for Educational Content - Part 1: Information Management for Educational Content
- Author
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Bernd J. Krämer and Michael Klebl
- Subjects
Educational content ,content sharing ,information management ,information quality ,learning object repository ,Education - Abstract
As education providers increasingly integrate digital learning media into their education processes, the need for the systematic management of learning materials and learning arrangements becomes clearer. Digital repositories, often called Learning Object Repositories (LOR), promise to provide an answer to this challenge. This article is composed of two parts. In this part, we derive technological and pedagogical requirements for LORs from a concretization of information quality criteria for e-learning technology. We review the evolution of learning object repositories and discuss their core features in the context of pedagogical requirements, information quality demands, and e-learning technology standards. We conclude with an outlook in Part 2, which presents concrete technical solutions, in particular networked repository architectures.
- Published
- 2011