Proposed eLearning Framework using Open Corpus Web Resources

Covid-19 has unsettled the traditional teaching-learning model to meet the learning needs of the students in absence of a classroom environment. Knowledge delivery through online classes has been accompanied by low user satisfaction. One possible antidote to supplement a teacher’s efforts that merits attention is the utilization of freely available content on the web. Copious volumes of learning content are generated by numerous entities and are easily available for knowledge consumption. Modern search engines do provide access to this trove of data on virtually any topic. However, to consume the content presented by a search engine, a user is required to manually sieve through the content and identify the ones suitable to their needs. To a person possessing domain knowledge of the topic, this approach to knowledge consumption is acceptable. Now, take the case of a class eight student, he/she may not be able to benefit from this search, filter and consume content approach. This is primarily due to the lack of adequate domain and web search expertise on their part. In this paper, approaches to delivering knowledge using web-based resources to the student community taking into consideration the aforementioned concerns are explored.