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An Ontology Oriented Approach for E-Learning Objects Design and Improvement

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A Semantic Web is one of the most emerging research areas nowadays. Ontology is a formal specification of the particular domain that describes a set of objects and properties that the objects might have. The development of learning objects for integrated learning environments based on Semantic Web services (SWS) are still at a very early stage. The SWS technology allows teachers to design and personalize learning objects (LO) presented for the necessary content. The aim of this paper is to outline the state-of-the-art research along those lines and to suggest a realistic way towards the educational Semantic Web. With regard to the aim we first propose a LO design (or redesign) model on service-based interoperability framework, in order to open up, share and reuse educational systems’ content and knowledge components. The research will focus on LO design and redesign by proposing ontology-driven possibilities that reflect the modularization in the educational information systems. Some brief examples of implementation on the Virtual Campus platform of the Politehnica University Timisoara are also given.

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    Armantas Ostreika, Daina Gudoniene, Rytis Maskeliunas & Danguole Rutkauskiene

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Ostreika, A., Vasiu, R., Gudoniene, D., Maskeliunas, R., Rutkauskiene, D. (2015). An Ontology Oriented Approach for E-Learning Objects Design and Improvement. In: Dregvaite, G., Damasevicius, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 538. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24770-0_13

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