Strategies that may help increase quality during inclusion of an LO in the Repository refer to two main aspects:
- Quality control through Membership or (Contribution Control Strategies)
- Quality control through technical Interoperability verification
To find pertinent resources use 'Contribution Control' or 'Interoperability' as keywords in the Q4R Repository
Contribution Control
The most common strategies for controling contributions are to:
- Use LO harvesting, which means that the repository imports metadata records from other high quality repositories
- Obligatory membership, usually free, but you must provide some personal data such as name, occupation and email address.
Technical Interoperability
Here we refer to how well a learning resource conforms to a technical standard.
- Automatic verification of compatibility with known protocols such as SCORM, Metadata schemata etc…
- Automatic metadata generation or simplified metadata tagging tools;
- Checklists and Best Practices form the issuing organization of a standard.
Principle:
- Reduce form-filling and use guiding wizards, smart automatic and semi-automatic computer agents to assist in assuring technical interoperability.