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What is E-Learning Content Repository

Chapter 26
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
A content repository is a storage system used to archive and manage learning content. Content repositories generally include search and retrieve features, metadata authoring and editing features, intellectual property controls, and often content authoring tools. Through a Web services interface, instructors and sometimes students are often able to search, retrieve, and edit content in the repository directly from within an LMS/LCMS.
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E-Learning
Gregory R. Gay (University of Toronto, Canada), Paola Salomoni (University of Bologna, Italy), and Silvia Mirri (University of Bologna, Italy)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch026
Abstract
The evolution of an Information Society has transformed many activities in our everyday lives, including how we work, communicate, entertain, teach and learn. More recently widespread Internet connectivity together with the development of new Web-based multimedia technologies, has strongly encouraged educational uses for Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
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