Description
As the e-learning industry continues to expand and the methods and tools necessary to create and maintain content and infrastructure applications become more complicated, there is an inherent need for these applications to interoperate and exchange data in order to better support the needs of learners and educators.
Handbook of Research on E-Learning Standards and Interoperability: Frameworks and Issues promotes the discussion of specific solutions for increasing the interoperability of standalone and Web-based educational tools. This book investigates issues arising from the deployment of learning standards and provides relevant theoretical frameworks and leading empirical research findings. Chapters presented in this work are suitable for practitioners and researchers in the area of educational technology with a focus on content reusability and interoperability.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Fotis Lazarinis (Ed.)
Fotis Lazarinis holds a PhD in Educational Technology with an emphasis on adaptive testing tools
and on the use of e-learning standards for representing and managing testing data. He is a visiting
lecturer in the Department of Cultural Heritage and New Technologies at the University of Western
Greece. He has authored over 50 refereed papers in international or national conferences, journals and
research handbooks. He has also published several Computer Science educational books in Greek and
served as a review member for conferences and workshops.
Steve Green (Ed.)
Steve Green is currently Director of Undergraduate Programmes in the School of Computing at
Teesside University, UK. He is a founder-member of both ARC (the Accessibility Research Centre) and
DFI (the Digital Futures Institute) at Teesside and has considerable research and commercial expertise
in e-learning, accessibility, open systems architectures and open publishing. He has been a project
manager and technical director of a number of research and enterprise projects in the areas of learning
technologies and digital media. He has published extensively on adaptability, inclusion, personal or
distributed learning environments and e-learning standards.
Elaine Pearson (Ed.)
Elaine Pearson is Director of the Accessibility Research Centre and a member of the Digital Futures Institute at Teesside University, UK. Her research and consultancy expertise lies in the use of digital media design and technology to support the needs and preferences of disabled people. This research has been supported by grants from British and European funding bodies including the Leverhulme Trust, Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE), and European Social Fund (ESF) EQUAL initiative. She has published extensively on accessibility and adaptability issues and been invited to present in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Australia. Dr Pearson is also Director of Post Graduate Programmes in the School of Computing. Her teaching interests as a Principal Lecturer lie in aspects of web and mobile design for accessibility and adaptability.