Authors:
Alina Stasiecka
1
;
Jacek Plodzien
2
and
Ewa Stemposz
3
Affiliations:
1
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technologies, Poland
;
2
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
;
3
Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences; Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technologies, Poland
Keyword(s):
Distance learning, e-learning resources, metadata, quality, reuse, SCORM.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Authoring Tools and Content Development
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning Standards and Tools
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Software Tools for e-Learning
;
Web-Based Education
;
Web-Based Teaching and Learning Technologies
Abstract:
In the paper we present our proposal of identifying and classifying e-learning resources metadata. The
research is based on the analysis of the results of a special questionnaire that we have developed to evaluate
e-learning resources. During the analysis we identified and then categorized several items of information
that proved to be essential; we especially focused on the quality and the reuse potential (reusability).
We compared those information items with the definition of metadata in the SCORM 2004 standard to
find out which of them are new and which are already available in the standard. The main contribution of
the paper is the definition of the most important of our metadata categories: Didactics, Evaluation,
Reusability, Quality, and their elements. As we will show, a lot of the elements are new. In our opinion, they
could become a useful part of the SCORM standard.