A Meta-data Driven Approach toSearching for Educational Resources in a Global Context
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WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet, 2000 in San Antonio, Texas
Abstract
As more and more educational services (e.g. on-line courses) and learning resources become available on the Internet today, it becomes increasingly difficult to identify those services or resources, which are of genuine relevance to the learner. Current Internet search services generally return very large numbers of results and it is left to the learner to glean the relevance of these selections. With the increased globalisation of the educational marketplace, this problem will become even more difficult. This paper proposes the design of a meta-data driven search management system for educational resources. The paper describes the design of an on-line educational brokerage service, which assists learners in identifying appropriate educational resources with greater accuracy than today's Internet search engines. The paper describes a novel XML/RDBMS implementation of the search management system and outlines the experience operating such a system on the Internet today. The paper concludes by providing observations on current IEEE standardisation for educational metadata and educational search services.
Citation
Doherty, P. & Wade, V. (2000). A Meta-data Driven Approach toSearching for Educational Resources in a Global Context. In Proceedings of WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (pp. 136-145). San Antonio, Texas: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 19, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/6351.
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