Social metaservices for the collaborative production of learning modules

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Published: Aug 31, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17471/2499-4324/144
Keywords:
Educational Technology, IT, Metadata, Metaservices, learning materials, Cooperation, Social Network, Entrepreneurship Education, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)

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Marco Mesiti
Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano
Stefano Valtolina
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Milano, Milano
Francesco Epifania
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Milano, Milano
Bruno Apolloni
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Milano, Milano

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a platform designed to help educators make profitable use of current LMSs for teaching in a particular domain. The platform has been developed within a major European Commission funded project for the promotion of Entrepreneurship Education (EE). The conceptual core of the platform is the metadata for describing content. These metadata form the basis for query and recommender systems, as well as for other socially oriented services designed to help teachers retrieve suitable material for their courses.
Seen in this light, the platform is a social network for a very demanding user group, namely teachers. They use the environment as a means to locate material considered authoritative and appropriate, and at the same time seek platform support for searching the system’s considerable repository.

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2014): TD62 - Entrepreneurship education
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Articles - Special Issue

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Author Biographies

Stefano Valtolina, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Milano, Milano

Dipartimento di Informatica

Francesco Epifania, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Milano, Milano

Dipartimento di Informatica

Bruno Apolloni, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Milano, Milano

Dipartimento di Informatica

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