Knowledge point-based approach to interlink open education resources

Abstract

With more and more Open Education Resources (OER) courses being recognised and acknowledged by global learners, an emerging issue is that learners' self-efficacy is often affected by the lack of interaction between peers and instructors in their continuous self-learning process. This paper proposes a low-level Knowledge Point-based approach to serve application layers to enhance the interaction during the self-learning. This is achieved through taking advantage of Semantic Web and Linked Data techniques to annotate and interlink OER fragments which can later be reused and interoperated more conveniently. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.