A Teaching Application to Improve Access and Management of Web-Based Academic Materials

Abstract

The seminars are a learning mechanism that serve to complement regular education with more specialized content. Different learning materials are generated from the seminars activity, such as documentation, presentations, videos, exercises… These materials can also be used for teaching purposes in other contexts. The management and distribution of these materials is normally done by hand or stored in a digital repository. The problem with these tools is that they facilitate storage management but are not focused to support their formative application. This article describes the experience of creating a web tool that allows to take profit of the materials generated in a seminar called Zaragoza Linguistics for later teaching use. The functionality has been implemented using web scraping techniques and the YouTube web services API.