Capture, Management, and Utilization of Lifecycle Information for Learning Resources

Throughout their lifecycle, Learning Resources undergo a multitude of processes by being created, used, provided, or reused. However, in order to be reusable, a Learning Resource often has to be adapted for a new context of use. This in turn implies multiple Reauthoring processes being performed on a Learning Resource. During each of these processes, different types of information emerge. When retained, this information can be helpful for the retrieval, authoring, use, or reuse of Learning Resources thereafter. In this paper, the lifecycle of Learning Resources along with the information generated herein is analyzed and a distributed architecture proposed that allows for the capture, processing, management, and utilization of the information mentioned in a generic way. Three steps have been conducted to implement the proposed framework. First evaluation results are promising.