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Metadata Integration Tool for Open Educational Resources

Student: Isheyemi Olufemi gabriel

Supervisor: Sergey Viktorovich Zykov

Faculty: Faculty of Computer Science

Educational Programme: System and Software Engineering (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2018

The master thesis is focused on the metadata component of the so-called open educational resources (OER). OER is a freely accessible, openly licensed text, media, and other digital assets that are useful for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes. The problem stems from the fact that the Internet is replete with a sizable volume of under-utilized OERs because of proliferation of educational platforms, with each implementing different metadata standard. This thesis first describes the metadata standards of open educational resources. They include Dublin Core, Learning Object Metadata, IMS Metadata, and Learning Resources Metadata Initiative (LMRI). The characteristics and structure of each metadata scheme were discussed and analyzed. Furthermore, this study included compatibility analysis of a few metadata warehouse elements, which might help or hinder overall OER quality in terms of visibility etc. To incorporate the stages of schema pre-integration, comparison and merging, an architectural template for metadata management was designed and implemented. This architectural template reflects an integrated view of OER metadata. The concluding OER evaluation proved the initial ideas and demonstrated that the metrics proposed were critical for the metadata quality.

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