Managing Learning Resource Metadata for Secondary Education

Abstract

Digital learning resources are becoming increasingly important, especially in times of COVID-19 home schooling. To align resources with educational objectives defined in school curricula, we need ways to describe and relate them. In this work, we present a new data model, a data management workflow and a prototypical information system enabling annotators to describe learning resources using the terminology and structure, while maintaining applicability in other contexts through transcription. Preliminary evaluation results with metadata curators show that our model is well-suited to efficiently model secondary education curricula. Provided that future evaluations with content creators, teachers and learners yield positive results, our model may enable curriculum specific learning analytics, search and recommendation without the need to annotate resources for each curriculum.