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International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

PAAMS 2017: Highlights of Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems pp 373–385Cite as

A Model to Aggregate Heterogeneous Learning Objects Repositories

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Technology has increasingly permeated the educational context making the use of learning objects (LOs) very popular. LOs need to be stored and cataloged so they can be located and retrieved in an efficient manner by both students and teachers. Furthermore, the objects collected in different repositories must be examined individually in order to select which ones best match the user’s needs. The main goal of this work is to propose a model that, prepared to the Web 3.0, enables LO to be used, reused or adapted from heterogeneous environments. To reach this goal the creation of a LO federation is proposed in order to organize various repositories in a hierarchical system. We describe how these objects can be harvested, indexed and retrieved by users from different standard repositories and how to present them to users in different devices. The system was able to index more than 100 thousand Los.

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  1. Informatics Institute in Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, 91501-970, Brazil

    Luiz Henrique Longhi Rossi, Marcos Freitas Nunes, Paulo Schreiner & Rosa Maria Vicari

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  1. Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Zita Vale

  3. University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

    Kasper Hallenborg

  4. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Ana Paula Rocha

  5. Lille University of Science and Technology, Lille, France

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  6. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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  7. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  8. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

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  9. National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, Lisbon, Portugal

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  10. National University of Colombia, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia

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  11. Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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  12. Malmö University, Malmo, Sweden

    Johan Holmgren

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Rossi, L.H.L., Nunes, M.F., Schreiner, P., Vicari, R.M. (2017). A Model to Aggregate Heterogeneous Learning Objects Repositories. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 722. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60285-1_32

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