schema.org proposal: VLEs and online courses

Hi

I would like to share with you our proposal to schema.org to describe Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). We have been working in this proposal for a long time after a broad review and discussion. Furthermore, we just presented this proposal in ISWC2014 and LILE2014, as a main part of our paper "An Enhanced Approach to Semantic Markup of VLEs Content Based on schema.org<http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1254/6_aldaej.pdf>". Full details of our proposal can be accessed via the following link:

https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/VLEs

In addition, this proposal can be also appropriate for other open online courses (e.g., MOOCs) as Course is a main type of VLEs structure. However, there is a a bit similar proposal to describe online courses which has been proposed recently by Guangyuan  Piao. Full details about this recent proposal can be accessed via the link below. This is a really encouraging and shows also the high demand to add a support of online courses in schema.org.

https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/Course


All feedbacks are highly appreciated!

Abdulaziz Aldaej
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PhD student
Department of Computing
University of Surrey
Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
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