Desenvolvimento de um web crawler para obtenção e reprodução de vídeos REA

Abstract

Open educational resources (OER) are digital materials which differ from common materials, such as books and notebooks. These materials are available on the internet, free of charge and in a multitude of subjects and languages, as well as books, for instance e-books. They also encompass applications, software, music, simulation and so on. However, this type of material is somewhat new and it is not very popular for today’s education professionals, even knowing that the main means of study for young people is through the internet, seeking different examples and more video lessons. The present work aims to provide a kind of OER, which are the videos, from the Repository of Other Open Collections, named ROCA, in an online environment of viewing open educational videos, called in this paper as REA Player. Each video in the ROCA repository presents a page that specifies your information and provides a link to download the video. A solution to take all the videos and make them available online in the REA Player, it would be through a WebCrawler, that should be able to track all the pages and collect the videos. Thus, a WebCrawler was developed in PHP programming language to perform the tracking in the ROCA and store the videos inside a database. And from the database they become available in the web, more specifically in the REA Player. It is believed that the REA movement is important for education, it revolves around a collaborative, accessible and diversified education that is inserted in the technologies, what means, it is also inserted in the society and its transformations. This work results in a simpler way to access and watch the ROCA videos through the REA Player.