mEducator 3.0: Combining Semantic and Social Web Approaches in Sharing and Retrieving Medical Education Resources

Sharing of educational resources over the web has been a key development for both educators and learners in recent years. Pivotal roles in these developments have been played by following principles of the social/collaborative web, and more recently by exploiting advances in the semantic web front. In this paper an architecture that allows the sharing and retrieving of educational resources is proposed. In contrast to similar past attempts, this is now done without the need of copying or storing metadata in a centralised dataset/repository. Linked Data principles were used for exploring the metadata, while collaborative techniques were used in the systems that take advance of this architecture in order to enhance the end user experience, thereby offering a contemporary way to achieve resource adaptation and personalisation.

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