Issues and Directions with Educational Metadata

The creation of learning resource metadata by instructors is a time consuming and error prone process. This paper outlines a broad research agenda to mitigate these issues.. The first part of this approach is to collect prescriptive metadata from various actors involved using a light weight collaborative tagging approach. This is then augmented with content analysis done directly on learning objects to create concept and summarization metadata. Finally, interaction metadata observed from the environment in which the learning objects are deployed is interrogate for specific pedagogical purposes, resulting in customized metadata profile for a specific context and goal. 1