Towards a folksonomy solution to support open educational activities and resources in Edu-AREA

Edu-AREA is a Web 2.0 application whose main goal is to contribute to teaching innovation through open educational resources, activities and experiences. AREA provides information in the form of descriptions of educational resources and guidelines of activities that can be used by teachers to create their teaching guides and later to document their classroom experiencies. Teachers can explore the resources, activities, guides and experiences available, select the ones they prefer, create a copy and modify them adapting to their particular teaching context in accordance with a real open approach. At the current stage of the Edu-AREA development, a main issue is related to the management and classification of information provided by users. This paper introduces a folksonomy approach to tackle with this problem and analyses how to apply it in several elements of the Edu-AREA data model. In addition, a general view of the software architecture is provided.