Learning Object Metadata: Opportunities and Challenges for the Middle East and North Africa
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This paper briefly analyses the requirements for “share and reuse” of learning objects in Middle East and North Africa. We propose a framework that can be used to connect Learning Object Repositories of the Middle East and North Africa with networks of repositories worldwide; through the services of the ARIADNE Foundation (http://www.ariadne-eu.org/) and the GLOBE consortium (http://globe-info.org).
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