Educational Glossary II
Distributed Educational Object: Unit of Instruction which can be re-used and addressed using either Web or CORBA model of distributed objects
- Could be a Web page in HTML, Java, VRML or larger or smaller granularity
- Natural size is a “screenful” which can be aggregated
“Metadata”: Aspects of educational objects which are inherited from their view as documents
- Author, Version, Abstract etc.
- Naturally arranged hierarchically from foil,foilset,course,curricula, department,University, Country …
Educational Object properties: are those properties specific to its educational use and would differ between computer science and physics
- “Programming Laboratory features”; Java simulations of Physics etc.