Cooper, M. and Heath, A.
(2009).
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Abstract
The paper describes the authors' work (in collaboration with others) to establish a new technological paradigm for delivering access to e-Learning to all persons, including disabled students. The new paradigm complements a content-oriented approach to accessibility but shifts the balance and responsibility for determining access needs of an individual from the producer, supplier or author of e-Learning system and content towards the individual and the individual's supporting technological and human agents. Thus, instead of a producer or supplier effectively saying with technology "I know what you need" a learner will say "this is what I need".
Firstly the topic is introduced and set in context. Then an overview is given of the roles of the pertinent metadata specifications: personal needs and preference profiles (PNP) [1]; and digital resource descriptions (DRD) [2](using the ISO terminology). An account is given of the work to develop and standardise these. A key implementation of Content Personalisation (CP), based on these metadata standards is taking place in the EU4ALL project. The project is introduced; its approach to CP outlined and implementation challenges are described. Concluding comments are made highlighting key points from the paper and noting the state-of-the-art.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Copyright Holders: | Not known |
| ISBN: | 84-692-1790-9, 978-84-692-1790-0 |
| Funders: | The support by the European Commission for the EU4ALL project is gratefully acknowledged (Project No. 034778). |
| Keywords: | accessibility; e-Learning; standards; MLE; LMS; VLE; adaptation; disabled people |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Institute of Educational Technology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
| Item ID: | 24796 |
| Depositing User: | Martyn Cooper |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2010 09:54 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2012 22:07 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/24796 |
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