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More recently, semantic technologies were taken into account to improve interoperability. The linked data approach has emerged as the <jats:italic>de facto<\/jats:italic> standard for sharing data on the web. To this end, it is obvious that the application of linked data principles offers a large potential to solve interoperability issues in the field of TEL. This paper aims to address this issue.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this paper, approaches are surveyed that are aimed towards a vision of linked education, i.e. education which exploits educational web data. It particularly considers the exploitation of the wealth of already existing TEL data on the web by allowing its exposure as linked data and by taking into account automated enrichment and interlinking techniques to provide rich and well\u2010interlinked data for the educational domain.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>So far web\u2010scale integration of educational resources is not facilitated, mainly due to the lack of take\u2010up of shared principles, datasets and schemas. However, linked data principles increasingly are recognized by the TEL community. 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