Semantic Web Challenges for E-learning: A Discussion of the New Research Agenda in the E-learning Field

M.D. Lytras and A.A. Tsilira (Greece)

Keywords

Semantic Web, Ontologies, Adaptive E-learning systems, Peer-to-Peer.

Abstract

In the last decade the evolution on educational technologies forced an extraordinary interest in new methods for delivering learning content to learners. Several times the role of technology was overestimated causing a myopic consideration of the critical issues in e learning. This paper provides an initial discussion of the role of ontologies in the context of e-learning. The overall objective is to emphasize on the importance of analyzing a phenomenon and revealing the descriptive conceptualizations that affect the employment of technology. Ontology as a term has an intrinsic holistic character and from this point of view is quite interesting to investigate ways of understanding the phenomenon of e-learning from several perspectives. An initial clarification of term ontology is investigated and the main issues are used for the description of the developmental process of the e-learning ontology entitled MDL. The final conclusion balances conceptualizations and technological formulations by drilling down abstract concept to data declarations and thus machine-readable semantics.

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