Learning Resource Management through Semantic Annotation Features in Popular Authoring Software

The ever-growing set of learning material challenges both students and teachers. While students often need to quickly retrieve resources on a certain topic, teachers have to author high quality documents in a limited amount of time, preferably using their favourite tools. In this paper, we propose an open ecosystem of plugins for popular authoring software, enabling teachers to annotate learning resources using domain concepts from ontologies. In addition, a plugin for the Moodle Learning Management System extracts these annotations from the metadata of the provided resources to allow students to get an overview of important concepts and efficiently retrieve corresponding material.