ASK-LOST 2.0: A web-based tool for social tagging of digital educational resources

In the context of Technology Enhanced Learning, digital educational resources are widely used for supporting a wide range of educational activities. Thus, organizing, managing, offering and accessing these resources over the web have been a key issue for our community. Emerging Web 2.0 applications...

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Main Authors: Kalamatianos, A., Zervas, P., Sampson, Demetrios
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17485
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author Kalamatianos, A.
Zervas, P.
Sampson, Demetrios
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description In the context of Technology Enhanced Learning, digital educational resources are widely used for supporting a wide range of educational activities. Thus, organizing, managing, offering and accessing these resources over the web have been a key issue for our community. Emerging Web 2.0 applications and user attitudes and, especially, the user participation in content generation has increased the amount of user generated educational resources on the web. As a result, the issue of the social tagging of these resources, beyond pre-defined metadata schemas, has been raised. In this paper we discuss the issues related to Social Tagging as a means for describing digital educational resources and present ASK Learning Objects Social Tagging 2.0 (ASK-LOST 2.0) a webbased tool that can be used for social tagging digital educational resource of various types. © 2009 IEEE.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-174852017-09-13T15:44:15Z ASK-LOST 2.0: A web-based tool for social tagging of digital educational resources Kalamatianos, A. Zervas, P. Sampson, Demetrios In the context of Technology Enhanced Learning, digital educational resources are widely used for supporting a wide range of educational activities. Thus, organizing, managing, offering and accessing these resources over the web have been a key issue for our community. Emerging Web 2.0 applications and user attitudes and, especially, the user participation in content generation has increased the amount of user generated educational resources on the web. As a result, the issue of the social tagging of these resources, beyond pre-defined metadata schemas, has been raised. In this paper we discuss the issues related to Social Tagging as a means for describing digital educational resources and present ASK Learning Objects Social Tagging 2.0 (ASK-LOST 2.0) a webbased tool that can be used for social tagging digital educational resource of various types. © 2009 IEEE. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17485 10.1109/ICALT.2009.142 restricted
spellingShingle Kalamatianos, A.
Zervas, P.
Sampson, Demetrios
ASK-LOST 2.0: A web-based tool for social tagging of digital educational resources
title ASK-LOST 2.0: A web-based tool for social tagging of digital educational resources
title_full ASK-LOST 2.0: A web-based tool for social tagging of digital educational resources
title_fullStr ASK-LOST 2.0: A web-based tool for social tagging of digital educational resources
title_full_unstemmed ASK-LOST 2.0: A web-based tool for social tagging of digital educational resources
title_short ASK-LOST 2.0: A web-based tool for social tagging of digital educational resources
title_sort ask-lost 2.0: a web-based tool for social tagging of digital educational resources
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/17485