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Increasing the Semantics of Learning Objects

Computer Science Department, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Gávea, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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RUBENS N. MELO

Computer Science Department, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Gávea, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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MARIA HELENA L. B. BRAZ

Technical University of Lisbon, DECivil, Av. Rovisco Pais, Lisbon, Portugal

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219427904000985Cited by:7 (Source: Crossref)

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The Internet has promoted several changes in the world. In this scenario, new theories, paradigms and methodologies have been discussed in the education area. In addition, as the development of learning material is expensive and time-consuming, the use of Learning Objects (LO) has been proposed for improving content reuse. However, the emphasis has been on how to describe LO, but it is not clear how to develop them. In addition, people want to satisfy their learning needs according to their personal characteristics such as knowledge background and learning style. The work presented in this paper proposes the increase of LO semantics. The idea behind our proposal is to develop LO based on a model for structuring knowledge (concepts, demonstrations and interactions) according to their context, representation and composition. This approach enables increased reusability and adaptability while providing better structured content material.

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