LearnWeb-OER: Improving Accessibility of Open Educational Resources

TL;DR

LearnWeb-OER is a platform designed to improve the accessibility and collaborative reuse of open educational resources by supporting search, annotation, and discussion functionalities tailored for educational use.

Contribution

This paper introduces LearnWeb-OER, a novel platform that enhances collaborative searching, sharing, and annotation of open educational resources for learning contexts.

Findings

Supports collaborative collection and annotation of resources

Facilitates discussion among users about educational resources

Improves access to relevant open educational resources

Abstract

In addition to user-generated content, Open Educational Resources are increasingly made available on the Web by several institutions and organizations with the aim of being re-used. Nevertheless, it is still difficult for users to find appropriate resources for specific learning scenarios among the vast amount offered on the Web. Our goal is to give users the opportunity to search for authentic resources from the Web and reuse them in a learning context. The LearnWeb-OER platform enhances collaborative searching and sharing of educational resources providing specific means and facilities for education. In the following, we provide a description of the functionalities that support users in collaboratively collecting, selecting, annotating and discussing search results and learning resources.