Using Linked Data to Blended Educational Materials With OER—A General Context of Synergy: Linked Data for Describe, Discovery and Retrieve OER and Human Beings Knowledge to Provide Context

This paper showcases relevant initiatives to address inclusive and sustainable development through the objectives of UNESCO's Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) towards ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. These research projects have been possible thanks to initiatives such as the global Open Educational Resources (OER) Graduate Network (GO-GN), a research network that facilitates collaborative research in the area of open education. These types of initiatives empower collaborative research proposals thanks to joint participation in working groups and seminars, which facilitate research collaborations with a clear focus, in this case, on inclusive and sustainable development. In this paper, several challenges on achieving a more inclusive and sustainable Open Education are discussed, such as the need to use accessibility metadata standards to improve the search and sharing of OERs in open repositories, the recommendation to use frameworks like Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to provide inclusive design feedback, and the benefits of action-oriented Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to promote sustainability.

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“…A case study of this engine includes its use through OER repositories in Spain and Latin America (Piedra et al 2017).…”

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Challenges to Achieving a More Inclusive and Sustainable Open Education

Iniesto

Tabuenca

Rodrigo

et al. 2021

Journal of Interactive Media in Education

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“…Mapping between traditional open repositories schemas such as IEEE LOM and LD vocabularies: this issue concerned most of the works in this field. It is a necessity not a marginal concern, since traditional existing schemas are not sufficient to describe and annotate OER resources perfectly, as we elaborated above and as discussed in other works like [27,33,35].…”

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“…OCW repositories: Research presented in [31][32][33][34][35] discussed the interoperability and integration among OERs and especially in OCW repositories by using LD. In fact, when authors and institutions contribute to providing OER content; this definitely improves their reputation and it strongly motivates the OER initiative.…”

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Added Values of Linked Data in Education: A Survey and Roadmap

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Education values such as knowledge sharing, and the linked data (LD) abilities such as interoperability are in perfect harmony. Much research has exploited that and provided important contributions and improvements in education through LD. International universities, large open education repositories, OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) initiatives, educational search engines, blending and adaptive learning, learning analysis and other various areas were the targets of many works on leveraging LD. However, this research exists in a scattered way without any type of categorization or organization. In this paper, we present a survey on the current works in educational linked data (ELD) to provide a starting point and a comprehensive roadmap to help researchers in recognizing the main tracks in ELD area. In addition, the paper extracted the common life cycle, outcome datasets and vocabularies from the overall presented works. The paper also provides samples of applications that exhibit the practical benefit of adopting LD in the various tracks and highlights the challenges that each track faced during the utilization of LD. Pioneer ELD’s projects, other existing overviews and landscapes and the most used tools based on the stages and prevalent are presented. Lastly, discussion and recommendations were provided based on the overall study.

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“…Publishing research results as scientific documents is one of the main tasks of research organizations and universities. Open Education Resources (OER) such as educational contents, research contributions and experimental results play important role in analyzing individual as well organizations performance [1], [2]. Scientific contributions and quality of research conducted by any organization can be analyzed based on scientific documents published by any particular organization/ university.…”

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Using Publications Linked Open Data to Define Organizational Policies

Aslam¹

2018

IJIEEB

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Researchers around the world are publishing their scientific research results in different forms such as books, journal articles, reference works and project reports. Publishers of these scientific documents usually describe them by using metadata for organizational purposes. This metadata provides a rich information about scientific documents that can be used for analysis purposes such as measuring the impact of researchers and research centers. It can also be used to find scientific documents published in domain of some ones interest, which ultimately can be used to raise the state of the art to the next level. Scientific publications metadata can also be used to analyze the quality and directions of common and highly cited individuals and organizations, and based on this analysis other individuals and organizations can define directions for their future work and research. However, the main limitation of this metadata is that it is available in different formats that might not facilitate the analysis of scientific documents. Therefore, in this paper we clarify that how our SPedia knowledge base (a semantic based knowledge base of scientific publications metadata which we extracted by using SpringerLink as information source) facilitates the analysis of scientific data for policy making. We discuss different kind of questions that can be answered through SPedia knowledge base and we show that how results of these questions can be used to analyze the performance of individuals as well as organizations. We also show that how results of such analysis can help in making organizational policies regarding future research directions.

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Using Linked Data to Blended Educational Materials With OER—A General Context of Synergy: Linked Data for Describe, Discovery and Retrieve OER and Human Beings Knowledge to Provide Context

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Challenges to Achieving a More Inclusive and Sustainable Open Education

Challenges to Achieving a More Inclusive and Sustainable Open Education

Added Values of Linked Data in Education: A Survey and Roadmap

Using Publications Linked Open Data to Define Organizational Policies

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