What is BS EN 15982 - Metadata for Learning Opportunities (MLO) — Advertising about?
BS EN 15982 specifies the characteristics of the electronic representation of Learning Opportunities in order to facilitate their advertising and subsequent discovery by prospective learners. Key users of BS EN 15982 will be:
- Those who provide opportunities for learning and wish to advertise them
- Those who offer electronic search services that aggregate results from multiple learning opportunity providers
- Those who wish to compare learning opportunities that have been represented electronically
Who is BS EN 15982 - Metadata for Learning Opportunities (MLO) — Advertising for?
BS EN 15982 on Metadata for Learning Opportunities advertising is useful for:
- IT (Information Technology) companies 
- Training and development sectors 
- Organizations involved in learning, education and training 
- Educational trainers 
- Web architectures
Why should you use BS EN 15982 - Metadata for Learning Opportunities (MLO) — Advertising?
MLO-AD is a lightweight standard that fits well with existing business processes and technologies. The MLOAD standard facilitates semantic technologies and web architectures to support several mechanisms for the exchange of information and aggregation of information by third-party service suppliers. BS EN 15982 is easy to implement to ensure a rapid uptake by the European countries.
BS EN 15982 specifies an abstract model for representing Learning Opportunities. The model specifies three resources about which metadata can be stored to facilitate the advertising of Learning Opportunities:
- The Learning Opportunity Provider
- The Learning Opportunity Specification
- The Learning Opportunity Instance
BS EN 15982 specifies the characteristics of relations between the three resources and recommends a core set of metadata for each.
Overall, BS EN 15982 helps you give information about a learning opportunity so that you may decide whether more information is needed and where to find it.
