Title: The usage of open educational resources in MAOR repository

Authors: Eli Shmueli; Anat Cohen

Addresses: MAITAL, the Inter-University Center for e-Learning, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel ' MAITAL, the Inter-University Center for e-Learning, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel

Abstract: In this paper, an innovative view of open online learning materials repositories will be presented through the example of MAOR, Israel's national repository that is linked to MERLOT. Web-usage mining techniques are utilised to explore three aspects: (a) distribution level of learning object (LO) that was contributed; (b) tools available to the community and its contribution to object quality; (c) transfer from public to personal workspaces. The use of MAOR repository has become substantial and continues to rise every year to both local and global audience. MAOR members contributed more than 3,300 LO and may access to approximately 30,000 in MERLOT. Furthermore, as part of the learning community they share knowledge by adding comments regarding the object and their experiences and benefit from additional information contributed by users in MERLOT. In addition, the potential of the personal workspaces was identified even though it is a new feature in MAOR.

Keywords: learning object repositories; LORs; open access; open educational resources; OERs; learning communities; personal workspaces; e-learning; electronic learning; online learning; internet; world wide web; meta-data; object repository; MAOR; Israel; MERLOT; Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching; web-usage; data mining techniques; distribution levels; learning objects; object quality; public workspaces; local audiences; global audiences; technology enhanced learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2012.051552

International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 2012 Vol.4 No.3/4, pp.284 - 298

Received: 01 May 2011
Accepted: 09 May 2012
Published online: 31 Dec 2014 *

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