Integrating Ontologies into the Collaborative Authoring of Learning Objects

Juan Manuel Dodero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Paloma Díaz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Antonio Sarasa (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

Ignacio Sarasa ((Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Abstract: Authoring learning material is a multi-disciplinary undertaking where different people can play their role. Any support that can be provided for the collaboration of instructional designers, pedagogues, media designers, and students, among others, is welcome. In particular, metadata annotation of learning objects is an important task within the whole authoring process. This work presents the first resulting products and approaches from the MD2 project, consisting of a service-oriented framework and a tool to support the integrated, ontology-based collaborative annotation of learning objects.

Keywords: collaborative annotation, learning objects, metadata, ontologies

Categories: K.3.1, K.3.2