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Integrating Educational Repositories to
improve the reuse of Learning Objects
1. INTRODUCTION
The Web today offers a comprehensive
amount of Open Educational Resources (OER)
repositories.
However, studies report evidence regarding
the low adoption of OER Repositories in com-
parison with other search engines [2, 1].
This work presents a questionnaire that aims
to characterize the way students and teachers
consume educational resources.
2. GOALS
- Identify the profile of OER consumers.
- Characterize the use of OER repositories.
- Find ways to enhance the reuse of resources
from OER Repositories.
3. RESULTS
160 responses through an online form.
Figures 1, 2 and 3 show the answers to three
questions of the questionnaire.
Here are some more facts found in the an-
swers:
- 92% rated it as useful or very useful a spe-
cific environment to find educational re-
sources.
- 37% know two or fewer repositories, 43%
know 3 to 5 repositories.
Figure 1: Answers for the question: For what purpose do
you use educational resources;
Figure 2: Answers for the question: Where do you search
for OER
Figure 3: Answers for the question: What do you think
could be improved in the search for educational resources?
4. CONCLUSIONS
The results show low Reuse of OER: only
44% of consumers use OER Repositories and
20% know more than 5 repositories.
Consumers look for quality in resources, and
they can find it in OER Repositories. But
browsing through different repositories without
integration makes this a costly task.
The integration of educational resources from
different repositories is necessary to enable the
construction of mechanisms to facilitate their
search and increase their reuse.
REFERENCES
[1] - C. Dichev and D. Dicheva. Is it time to change the oer repositories role? In Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Librar-ies, pages 31-34. ACM, 2012.
[2] - S. Dietze, S. Sanchez-Alonso, H. Ebner, H. Q. Yu, D. Giordano, I. Marenzi, and B. P. Nunes. Interlinking educational resources and the web of data: A survey of challenges and approaches. Pro-gram: electronic library and information systems, 47(1):60-91, 2013.