WP3: Authoring, Adaptation and Social Metadata

Main Objectives

The main objective of WP3 is to enable the application of Social & Educational Metadata and Community based Quality Assurance Mechanisms for open content providers. Those mechanisms include ratings and recommendation mechanisms based on user-behavior (e.g. Attention Metadata). Users will be provided with existing tools to enrich existing open content with skill-related, instructional and curricular information. In addition, several facilities to rate and evaluate content will be explored in the workpackage.

Adaptation Strategy

The goal of of the adaptation strategy activity is the development of a high-level strategy for the adaptation, re-purposing and improvement of existing learning material based on a variety of tools and services. The focus of this work is primarily on the evidence gathered through a number of adaptation case studies addressing a wide range of audiences and contexts. Based on the analysis of these case studies, an adaptation strategy is being formulated, consisting of recommendations for the adaptation of learning material. The recommendations target various aspects of the adaptation process, including cultural and multilingual contexts. In addition, the technologies most suitable for the adaptation of content are being reviewed and classified towards the development of the OpenScout Tool Library.

Tool Library

The OpenScout Tool Library is an ecosystem of people, stories, and resources. The purpose of this ecosystem is to bring together people that are developing or using learning resources and provide them with the ability to share their stories and resources. These people come from diverse backgrounds and are involved in various stages of the lifecycle of learning resources. We have identified four major stakeholder clusters: content providers and brokers, educators, collaborators, and social learners. Their stories include completed or running case studies and learning scenarios, their experiences with learning resources, as well as their future expectations from them. Finally the learning resources involved are either learning tools or content, such as Open Educational Resources (OER).