NDLI: ASK–LOST 2.0: A Web-Based Tool for Social Tagging of Digital Educational Resources

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Kalamatianos, A. Zervas, P. Sampson, D.G.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	In the context of Technology Enhanced Learning, digital educational resources are widely used for supporting a wide range of educational activities. Thus, organizing, managing, offering and accessing these resources over the web have been a key issue for our community. Emerging Web 2.0 applications and user attitudes and, especially, the user participation in content generation has increased the amount of user generated educational resources on the web. As a result, the issue of the social tagging of these resources, beyond pre-defined metadata schemas, has been raised. In this paper we discuss the issues related to Social Tagging as a means for describing digital educational resources and present ASK Learning Objects Social Tagging 2.0 (ASK-LOST 2.0) a web-based tool that can be used for social tagging digital educational resource of various types.
Starting Page	157
Ending Page	159
File Size	253456
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769537115
DOI	10.1109/ICALT.2009.142
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-07-15
Publisher Place	Latvia
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Tagging Educational technology Vocabulary Educational activities Organizing Web sites Digital systems Societies Informatics Telematics Digital Educational Resources Learning Objects Social Tagging Web 2.0 Folksonomies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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