Quality Assurance for Open Educational Resources: The OERTrust Framework
Keywords:
Open Educational Resources ; Quality; Testing; Software EngineeringAbstract
Learning Objects have met some barriers to their development
and effective adoption, which varied from the lack of quality assurance
mechanisms to the impossibility of editing and adapting most of them to
real teaching and learning contexts. However, with the advent of OER
(Open Educational Resources), if the later problem – to retain, reuse and
even remix learning content – was meant to be solved, the same could
not be said for the first one. Quality assurance is still an unsolved
problem in this context, even more complex due to the possibility of
versioning and collaborative design brought by OER. Thus, it is
necessary to propose validation mechanisms for them, at least
establishing some guarantees about their functionality and quality. In
this sense, this work aims to discuss OERTrust, a proposal of
supporting framework for OER validation and testing process,
considering both versioning and remixing features. OERTrust is based
on the principles of validation and testing that come from Software
Engineering area and relies on fuzzy logic to define the importance and
influence of different tests to each kind of OER.
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