Mitigating the Challenge of Localizing Open Educational Resources
Abstract
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are free educational materials available online that can be used, modified, or redistributed freely according to their usage licenses. The storage and access to OERs occur via Open Educational Resources Repositories (OERRs). However, the dispersion of OERs across numerous repositories and the lack of standardization in search mechanisms make their location and effective use difficult. To mitigate this problem, this work proposes the “REATECA REA Crawler” system for the collection and referencing of OERs in various OERRs. A user perception study investigates the proposed system.
Keywords:
Open Educational Resources, Search Engine, Web Scraping
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Published
2024-11-04
How to Cite
OLIVEIRA, Osvaldo Luiz de; PEREIRA, Marcus Vinícius Germano de Abreu.
Mitigating the Challenge of Localizing Open Educational Resources. In: BRAZILIAN SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION (SBIE), 35. , 2024, Rio de Janeiro/RJ.
Anais [...].
Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2024
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p. 289-300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbie.2024.242452.
