Thesis: Supporting the discoverability of Open Educational Resources.

My research investigates and proposes strategies to better support educators in discovering OERs. The literature suggests that the effectiveness of existing search systems could be improved by supporting high-level and domain-oriented tasks. Hence a preliminary taxonomy of discovery-related tasks was developed, based on the analysis of the literature, interpreted through Information Foraging Theory. This taxonomy...

Keys: linked data, schema.org, collective intelligence, merging search and recommendation systems, foraging theory, evaluation.