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The huge amount of digital educational resources availability and extensive integration of information technology in e-learning domain, have initiated changes in educational paradigm. The higher educational institutions are with a great challenge in how to prepare their students towards cognitive thinking, to solve realistic problems and to meet the demands of the knowledge society. In this connection, In the existing educational metadata standards, there is an apparent lack of metadata elements from psychological and cognitive science perspective to satisfy the needs of e-learner. The assignment of pedagogical metadata that characterizes the learning resources as per the cognitive prerequisites of a learner, is an important step towards delivering contents of a domain. In this work, first we explore some core issues and the implications for the success of web-based distance learning environments. Then, we proposed the cognitive principles based descriptive metadata for the course-based learning environment. In order to make the proposed metadata schema to support the recent Educational Semantic-web Vision, we define the ontological structure of course-contents. Finally, the article ends with an investigation on the assessment of learner’s cognitive learning skills through using ANCOVA statistical evaluation approach. |
