Reusability and Interoperability of Adaptive Learning Objects Repositories

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Resumo: Learning objects repositories often keep their contents invisible from Internet-based search engines. By making them not “googleable”, some strategies must be drawn in order to provide a certain degree of external reusability of learning objects among repositories, which leads us to interoperability issues. This paper proposes a six-tiered architecture for learning objects repositories that intends to be general enough to support different pedagogical approaches, adaptation levels and interoperability with other repositories.

Abstract: Learning objects repositories often keep their contents invisible from Internet-based search engines. By making them not “googleable”, some strategies must be drawn in order to provide a certain degree of external reusability of learning objects among repositories, which leads us to interoperability issues. This paper proposes a six-tiered architecture for learning objects repositories that intends to be general enough to support different pedagogical approaches, adaptation levels and interoperability with other repositories.