Promotion of self-learning by means of Open Educational Resources and semantic technologies

Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potential to encourage self-learning and lifelong learning. However, there are some barriers that make it difficult to find the suitable information. The successful adoption of OER in processes of informal or self-directed learning will depend largely on wha...

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Autores: Pallares Rivera, J., Piedra Pullaguari, N., Chicaiza Espinosa, J., Tovar, E.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
Repositorio:Repositorio Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
OAI Identifier:oai:dspace.utpl.edu.ec:123456789/18903
Acceso en línea:http://dspace.utpl.edu.ec/handle/123456789/18903
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:self-learning
OERs
semantic web
ontology
Serendipity
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Sumario:Open Educational Resources (OER) have the potential to encourage self-learning and lifelong learning. However, there are some barriers that make it difficult to find the suitable information. The successful adoption of OER in processes of informal or self-directed learning will depend largely on what the learner is able to reach without a guide or a tutor. However, the OERs quality and their particular features can positively influence into the motivation of the self-learner to achieve their goals. In this paper, the authors present an approach to enhance the OER discovery by self-learners. This is designed to leverage open knowledge sources, which are described by semantic technologies. User's data and OER encoded in formal languages can be linked and thus find paths for suggest the most appropriate resources.