e-ABC

Towards Higher Levels of Automation in Standardized e-Learning

Salvador Sánchez-Alonso and Miguel-Angel Sicilia

Abstract

Learning object metadata records are nowadays mostly descriptive in the sense that they are intended to give information about the contents or the format of the learning object, but without entailing explicit run-time semantics for Learning Management Systems that use them. Nonetheless, normative metadata descriptions are also required in order to obtain systems that behave according to metadata records in a consistent and predictable way. This paper describes the rationale for normative specification techniques as a complement for existing descriptive metadata, which enables a higher degree of automation by precisely describing usage conditions and expected outcomes for learning objects and learning processes.

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