Title:	CREATING MEDICAL RELATED LEARNING RESOURCES USING REPURPOSING PROCEDURES AND SEMANTIC WEB FUNCTIONALITIES
Author(s):	?tef?nu? Teodor, Dorian Gorgan, Nikolas Dovrolis, Eleni Kaldoudi, Stefan Dietze
ISBN:	978-972-8939-67-0
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2012
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Semantic web, social networking, repurposing, e-Learning
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	52
Last Page:	58
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The development of new, high quality e-Learning resources has become increasingly important in medicine, as the online learning approach is used in most of the disciplines, specialities and teaching levels. Either a theoretical presentation or a clinical case, the creation process of any valuable didactical material involves a lot of effort and usually high costs. Research and educational communities in medicine, as well as in other disciplines, have tried different approaches on maximizing the quality of the resources while maintaining the costs at a low level or even reducing them. Most promising solutions used at present involve materials sharing between different content providers (either automatically or based on human content editors) and the creation of new materials based on already existing ones, in an approach named repurposing. However, the application of these methods raise another issue related with how to identify relevant resources, how to codify the changes one makes in order to create the new materials and how to integrate all the new available resources without creating confusion (ex. some repurposed materials seem to be duplicates of the initial ones). In this paper we suggest some solutions to these problems based on social networks and semantic web functionalities.
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