Title :
ASK-CDM-ECTS: A Tool for Facilitating Common European University Course Description towards Higher Education Integration
Author :
Sampson, Demetrios G. ; Zervas, Panayiotis ; Limnatitis, Renos
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Digital Syst., Univ. of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
Abstract :
In this paper, we present ASK-CDM-ECTS, a Web based authoring environment for describing higher education study programmes and courses, as well as, their educational material, following an application profile of the course description metadata specification (CDM), namely, CDM-ECTS, that supports the specific requirements of the European credit transfer and accumulation system (ECTS).
Keywords :
Internet; authoring systems; computer aided instruction; educational courses; ASK-CDM-ECTS; European credit transfer and accumulation system; European university course description; Web based authoring environment; course description metadata specification; higher education integration; Digital systems; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Educational technology; Electrical capacitance tomography; Helium; Informatics; Information retrieval; Packaging; Societies; Course Description Metadata Specification; European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System; Higher Education; IEEE Learning Objects Metadata;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2009. ICALT 2009. Ninth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Riga
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3711-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3711-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2009.125
