The aim of the TERM project - Tagging (extra, external) Electronic Resources for Modules - is to investigate the extent to which social bookmarking can be used to promote collaborative learning. The motivation for doing this is to enable students to get more value from the informal collections of on-line resources that they may gather to support their learning. The study has two main strands: identifying the barriers to sharing resources; and exploring potential solutions. The latter has focussed on exploiting both the social and technology opportunities provided by “Web 2.0”
Abstract. Web-based tagging systems for educational resources allow users
to associate free keywords with resources to facilitate their retrieval and
reuse. This paper looks at the similarities and differences among three
different systems. We first focus on the purpose of tagging and the
incentives for users to tag educational resources. Then, we compare the
most used tags in each system. We find that even if the tagging system
design decisions differ, there is a number of similarities in tags that are
shared among more than one of the services. Moreover, our goal is to
discuss the reuse of tags across these systems and use them as a
navigational aid for a user to cross system boundaries.
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