In the development of educational material for adults' educators of special groups within an e-learning environment it is important to follow the IEEE Learning Object Metadata (LOM) specifications in order to enhance the retrieval, interoperability, and reusability. One of the factors affecting directly the educational procedure is the compatibility between educator and learners. In order to provide the proper educational material to each educator, its important properties have to be linked with the existing IEEE LOM elements and a number of additional LOM elements have to be defined and proposed as extensions, vocabularies and ontologies. In this case the adults ' educator of special groups is defined under “ intended user role”, the “ educational objectives” are customized and the notion of the new term “ compatibility” is accommodated under a new purpose in the classification category “ special attributes”. In this way, the proper Learning Object (LO) according to each educator ' s needs can be retrieved by using the Learning Object ' s Metadata.
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Korres, M.P. (2009). On the requirements of Learning Object Metadata for adults' educators of special groups. In: Sicilia, MA., Lytras, M.D. (eds) Metadata and Semantics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77745-0_12
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