Participative knowledge production of learning objects for e‐books

Abstract

In a distributed learning environment, the development of learning objects is a participative task. We consider learning objects as knowledge pieces, which are subject to the management processes of acquisition, delivery, creation and production. A multiple‐tier architecture for participative knowledge production tasks is introduced, where knowledge‐producing agents are arranged into knowledge domains or marts, and a distributed interaction protocol is used to consolidate knowledge that is produced in a mart. Knowledge consolidated in a given mart can be in turn negotiated in higher‐level foreign marts. The proposed architecture and protocol are applied to coordinate the authoring of open e‐book packages as learning objects by a distributed group of authors.

Citation

Manuel Dodero, J., Aedo, I. and Díaz, P. (2002), "Participative knowledge production of learning objects for e‐books", The Electronic Library, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 296-305. https://doi.org/10.1108/02640470210438892