YAI: creation of open learning resources by aggregating metadata to shared educational contents

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present an initiative to apply the principles of Linked Data to enhance the search and discovery of OpenCourseWare (OCW) contents created and shared by the universities. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a case study of how linked data technologies can be applied for the enhancement of open learning contents. Findings – Results presented under the umbrella of OCW-Universia consortium, as the integration and access to content from different repositories OCW and the development of a query method to access these data, reveal that linked data would offer a solution to filter and select semantically those open educational contents, and automatically are linked to the linked open data cloud. Originality/value – The new OCW-Universia integration with linked data adds new features to the initial framework including improved query mechanisms and interoperability.

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Open learning resources for local studies

Open Learning The Journal of Open Distance and e-Learning ◽

10.1080/0268051870020110 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 43-45

Keyword(s):

Learning Resources ◽

Open Learning

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For Children in and out of Class During a Pandemic

10.4018/978-1-7998-6496-7.ch003 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 110-154

Keyword(s):

Online Teaching ◽

Social Web ◽

Learning Resources ◽

Open Learning ◽

Bottom Up ◽

Shared Learning ◽

Online Teachers ◽

Environmental Scan ◽

Video Sharing ◽

The Social

In a pandemic, when schools have either closed, gone “blended” or “hybrid” (part-in-person and part-online), or gone fully online, teachers have to master online teaching quickly. At these moments, various online and published resources are referred to and used as guides. Some are willing to offer open-shared learning resources on the Social Web. This work involves an environmental scan of open-shared learning resources for pre-K12 and K12 on (1) an online teaching repository/referatory, (2) slideshow-sharing site, and (3) a social video sharing site. This includes bottom-up thematic coding of the journalistic literature (of COVID-19 and children), a review of the available recent open learning resources, and analytical observations about how to improve the available contents.

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