Towards a new proposal to evaluate the learning objects quality in learning strategies for education (QEES)

In Computer Science world several proposals have been developed for the assessment of the quality of the digital objects, based on the capabilities and facilities offered by current technologies and the available resources. Years ago researchers and specialists from both educational and technological areas have been committed to the development of strategies that improve the quality of education. At present, in the field of teaching-learning, another important aspect is the need to improve the manner of gaining knowledge and learning in education, which the use of learning strategies is a major advance in the teaching-learning process in institutions of higher education. This paper presents QEES, a proposal for evaluating the quality of the learning objects employed on learning strategies to support students during their education processes by using information extraction techniques and ontologies.

The first author has a MAEC-AEClD grant (program ll-A) of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. This work has also been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education under the Doctoral Fellowship Program (FPU) (AP2007-03076), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the TEXTMESS 2.0 project (TIN2009-13391-C04-01), and the Valencian Government (Generalitat Valenciana) under the Prometeo program (PROMETEO/2009/199) and the ACOMP/2011/001 research.