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Educational Ontology Development

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition

Ontology use in education environments can be explained in three groups: content access and/or retrieval, content creation, and personalization. Use of ontologies helps content creators to design, develop online courses; provide smart searches and content suggestions; and, design personalized learning environments for learners. But it is not always possible for educators to find the best ontology for their needs in their Learning Management System. Since the ontology creation is a complex process, it might not be always easy or even possible to create an ontology for a selected domain and use accordingly. In this paper, first, a review of state-of-the art literature regarding the ontologies in educational domain will be reviewed. Second, the challenges and difficulties in ontology development process for educational domain will be addressed and explained in detail. Finally, design suggestions to the difficulties expressed in the literature and further opportunities in ontology desig...

Ontological Web Portal for Educational Ontologies

In spite of the fact that the field of applying ontological research in education is fairly young it is already quite broad and fuzzy. The set of technologies used and developed there have roots in a variety of diverse areas of information and pedagogical sciences. To facilitate the process of scientific and scholastic search the domain needs to be structured. This paper presents two main results: an ontological overview of the Ontologies for Education field and an initial report on the development of an ontology-driven web portal providing a single network place, where researchers, students, and practitioners can find information about available research projects and successful practices in this field.

E-Learning Developing Using Ontological Engineering

2013

One of the most important prerequisites in base plan for long-term development of all countries is high education level in society what includes e-learning studies. The time is coming when global tasks could be solved only with communication and learning in world level. Ontological engineering have become an efficient methodology for knowledge representation and management in many domains and tasks. Ontology design, approaches and methodologies are very important issues for building ontologies for specific task. This paper presents the application of the ontological engineering methodology in e-Learning domain. There is the development of two web-based ontologies in the area of artificial intelligence technology. The first one is the “Artificial Intelligence in Education” ontology and the second is ‘Expert Systems” ontology. The developed ontologies were encoded in OWL-DL format using the Protégé-OWL editing environment. The ontological engineering methodology is widely used in many...

Ontologies for Creating Learning Object Content

2004

This paper gives a proposal to enhance learning object (LO) content using ontological engineering. In the previous work on using ontologies to describe LO researchers build ontologies for description of metadata. These semantically annotated metadata improves retrieval for objects describing the same or similar content. However, these ontologies do not improve an LO content. Our approach suggests creating LOs that have content marked up in accordance with domain ontologies. Accordingly, LOs can be used not only as learning materials, but can also be used in real world applications (e.g. simulation and CASE tools, etc.). This approach is based, on defining domain ontologies, annotation-based author tools, ontology languages (RDF), and transformation (e.g. XSLT). As an illustration, we developed a simple Web application for teaching Petri nets is a simulation-supported environment.

Ontology and Software Components for the E-learning Domain

The high quality software development process can imply in component reuse. Reuse demands appropriate documentation. One of the approaches to document software development uses the concepts of ontology. Our research focuses domain ontology and software component development. It aims to test ideas on the use of OdysseyShare available tools. In this paper we present an e-learning ontology, created and modeled in order to provide support to the development and reuse of software component to be shared with software engineering community. To better expose our approach, Virtual Classroom, one sub sector of the e-learning domain, is presented, and it is pointed out how we developed some components for the described sub sector.

Considering the educational semantic web

Web-based Educational Systems (WBES) attempt to employ Semantic Web technologies in order to achieve: a) improved adaptation and flexibility for single and group users, and b) new methods and types of courseware compliant with the Semantic Web. In this paper, we consider the role of advanced networking in Education through the development of the Semantic Web. We provide a state-of-the-art literature review and present tools of e-learning in the Semantic Web. Furthermore, we explore what the Semantic Web can do for Adaptive WBES.

Description of an instructional ontology and its application in web services for education

Proceedings of Workshop on Applications of Semantic …, 2004

In the last years, important steps have been undertaken to bring the e-learning web to its full potential. In this paper, I describe an ontology that can serve as a further step in this direction. The ontology captures the instructional function of a learning resource, in other words, its "essence" from a teaching/learning perspective, an aspect not yet covered by learning object metadata standards. It offers the well-known advantages of ontologies: it can provide humans with a shared vocabulary and can serve as the basis for the semantic interoperability for machines. The article motivates the need for such an ontology and describes several educational Web services that can benefit from it. To exemplify the generality of the ontology, the article describes how the ontology can be mapped onto several knowledge representations currently used in e-learning systems. * This publication was generated in the LeActiveMath project, funded by the European Community (IST-2003-507826). The author is solely responsible for its content.

Creating of an Educational Enviroment Using Ontology-Based Approach to E-learning Systems

2020

The article disclosed the meaning of the concept of “educational environment”, describes the technology of creating such an environment based on ontology-based approach to e-learning systems, namely its components: conceptual, semantic, procedural and control-correction. The process of presenting e-learning content, which is based on a certain set of logically related blocks (chunks) and its properties, is described. The essence of didactic and content ontologies of academic discipline is revealed. Examples of the application of technology in the study of disciplines: “Computer Graphics and Multimedia”, “Linear Algebra”, “Calculus”, “Data Structure”, simulated interdisciplinary connections using chunks.