Developing a general schema of reusable learning objects for learning management system / Mohd Imran Md Yusop

E-Leaming has become more and more popular since the introduction of the World Wide
Web. The emergence of a huge number of Learning Management Systems shows that Eleaming
growing rapidly due to huge support by online and computer users. The number
of different Learning Management Systems causes a need to standardize the learning
content development in order for the content to be reusable. SCORM standard helps
resolve this issue by providing the specification of learning content development that are
called as learning objects in SCORM, which is a small chunk digital resource that can be
reused to support learning and are represented by a metadata file in XML format using
IEEE LOM metadata standards. Problem arises once more as the IEEE LOM standard are
too complex and too detail making it hard for content authors to develop a learning object
and this issue required an analysis of what are the most general annotation . Thus, this
project will address this problem by developing a general schema of a learning object
metadata file that can be followed as a guideline in developing a learning object metadata
file. Furthermore, this research will also develop a system that uses the schema to
automatically generate the metadata file for a learning object. The schema will serve as a
guideline for content authors to develop a learning object while the system that will be
developed can be used by authors with no metadata building background to create
learning object and its metadata file.