Abstract:

Many organizations are loaded with digital content consisting of documents, audio and video material. While digital content is a valuable and efficient asset for supporting communication, business operations and knowledge sharing, management of content while enabling learning poses multiple challenges. There are a number of Learning Management Systems (LMS) developed for e-Learning, supporting a varying scale of e-Learning standards and specifications. E-Learning standardization aims for interoperability and reusability of learning content as Learning Objects (LO), which may be pieces of educational content such as documents or portions of them, audio and video files, and simulations. For an organization willing to take advantage of e-Learning the comparison, not to mention the implementation of a myriad of LMS and e-Learning standards may require a massive effort. This paper describes the e-Learning standards and proposes a simple point of departure into e-Learning for organizations: the use of a content management system with commonly-adopted Dublin Core metadata specification with e-Learning extensions.