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Searching and exposing learning objects from Moodle: The ODS experience

Learning Management Systems (LMS's) play an important role in technology-enhanced learning. Open source LMS Moodle is currently one of the most popular, due to its rich set of features, flexibility and compliance with IT and pedagogical standards and user needs. In order to adopt the exchange of learning materials with as little intervention from the course creators, two new Moodle plugins were developed. Their purpose is to enable teachers to search but also configure what is exposed, how and when, by providing mechanisms for automatic generation of validated LOM-based metadata for harvesting by the OAI-PMH harvesters. This research paper describes the method for searching and exposing learning objects from Moodle. Factors which will be taken into consideration include the ease of use from course creator's and Moodle administrator's point of view and how well the generated metadata match user requests as well as impact of the harvesting process to the Moodle installation.

E-learning, LMS, LOR, OER, OAI-PMH, automatic metadata generation, matching problem

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