Improving Learning Object Description Mechanisms to Support an Integrated Framework for Ubiquitous Learning Scenarios

This paper describes an approach to provide an integrated support for learners across a variety of ubiquitous learning activities, including mobile scenarios. Artefacts generated by students using tools in different devices and localizations are stored in a learning object repository (LOR), enabling search, distribution and reuse of the students' results and products in other tools. As metadata is a key factor for the retrieval task, a framework adaptable to a diversity of tools and capable of auto-metadocumenting the objects in terms of the tools and LOR's context is discussed, as well as wrapping methods for automatically reify data into objects, for those tools with limited or null interoperability with the LOR