A Model to Represent the Facets of Learning Object

This paper presents a model to describe Learning Objects (LO). The main objective of this model is to consider all the aspects of the LO for which a description will ease LO re-use. The LO description we promote complies with the current standards of e-learning and includes the following: metadata, scenarios the objects are used in, and the objects they are composed of. We enrich this multi-facet representation by taking into account the semantics of learning object contents. Another contribution of our work is that this multi-facet representation relies on ontologies, allowing a semantic representation that facilitates communication between machines and users.