WebEduRank: an Educational Ranking Principle of Web Resources for Teaching

The seeking of teaching resources on the web is a very common practice among instructors. Some on-line systems aim to support instructors in this complex and delicate task. In fact, quality of teaching is without doubt an important factor for learning, and an important aspect of teaching is the delivery of quality learning material to students. Remarkable results have been achieved in the reuse and recommendation of teaching resources, producing the corner stone for Information Retrieval (IR) in education. Our research aims to connect those findings with web resources, overcoming the current limitation of analysing resources from educational repositories only. Firstly, this study addresses the problem of identifying those attributes of a teaching context that actually carry on a piece of information useful for rating web resources for teaching. Then, the project works on the design of WebEduRank, a ranking principle for rating webresources according to the teaching requirements and needs of an instructor. So far, the research has already identified the attributes that are expected to positively inform theWebEduRank. Using these attributes, the design of theWebEduRankis now completed and the methodology for its validation is already devised and implemented.