An Enhanced Approach to Semantic Markup of VLEs Content Based on Schema.org

In June 2011, the major search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo! and Yandex) announced the new innovation of schema.org. However, there is a clear need to integrate Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) with the wider Web and maintain its learning contents freely open in order to support the sharing and reuse of learning resources. This paper focuses on our proposal to schema.org by proposing new vocabularies to describe VLEs content with rich semantic information due the lack in specific vocabularies for VLEs in the current schema. In order to test this proposal, we have prototyped a simple VLE that was proposed in another paper [1], which makes use of the Semantic Content Management System (SCMS) Drupal to provide a more open, social and semantic structured learning environment. This proposal is discussed here in order to elicit a broad review from the community.