Title
Quality assurance for open educational resources: The OER trust framework
Date Issued
01 March 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Publisher(s)
Society for Research and Knowledge Management
Abstract
Learning Objects have met some barriers to their development and effective adoption, which varied from the lack of quality assurance mechanisms to the impossibility of editing and adapting most of them to real teaching and learning contexts. However, with the advent of OER (Open Educational Resources), if the later problem - to retain, reuse and even remix learning content - was meant to be solved, the same could not be said for the first one. Quality assurance is still an unsolved problem in this context, even more complex due to the possibility of versioning and collaborative design brought by OER. Thus, it is necessary to propose validation mechanisms for them, at least establishing some guarantees about their functionality and quality. In this sense, this work aims to discuss OERTrust, a proposal of supporting framework for OER validation and testing process, considering both versioning and remixing features. OERTrust is based on the principles of validation and testing that come from Software Engineering area and relies on fuzzy logic to define the importance and influence of different tests to each kind of OER.
Start page
1
End page
14
Volume
17
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Educacion especial (para estudiantes dotados y aquellos con dificultades del apredizaje) Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85061271473
Source
International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research
ISSN of the container
16942116
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