ABSTRACT
Worldwide, a vast amount of educational content is constantly being produced, in order to support learning and teaching, in a wide range of contexts such as school, academic, training or lifelong learning. The rapid increase in the quantity of available learning objects makes it difficult to search or reuse them by adopting or integrating them into new educational contexts. This problem can be handled efficiently by using learning object metadata. With consistent descriptions of the learning objects characteristics, searching becomes more specific and in-depth; managing becomes simpler and uniform; and sharing becomes more efficient and accurate.
