activity_theory_metadata

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 * Activity theory, metadata, & content classification**

Mwanza, & Engeström (2005)

- //what is Mwanza and Engeström's unit of anlysis? In other words, what activity system do Mwanza and Engeström's analyse?//

From the abstract > Whilst metadata standards provide effective guidelines for organising content in web-based e-learning environments, technology-based approaches to managing educational resources do not fully address social-cultural and pedagogical aspects of users in the context in which teaching and learning takes place. In this regard, the effectiveness of using metadata to structure the discovery and access to educational content should be considered in relation to the extent by which metadata descriptors are associated with established socio-cultural and pedagogical practices. Towards this end, we reflect on potential contributions of social-cultural and learning theories to the task of managing content in e-learning environments. The paper presents an activity-centred approach to abstracting contextually and pedagogically enriched metadata descriptions of educational content and interactions with learning objects.

Reference
Mwanza, D., & Engeström, Y. (2005). Managing content in e-learning environments. //British Journal of Educational Technology, 36//(3), 453-463.