AN AUTHORING ARCHITECTURE FOR ANNOTATING EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS - Domain, Sequencing and Content-Repository Ontologies

José M. Gascueña, Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Pascual Gónzalez

2007

Abstract

E-learning platforms available nowadays are mainly centred in supporting management tasks, but they do not include or even consider in a too satisfactory way the adaptation to student’s profile, the reusability of educational materials, or the efficient search into educational materials. By combining the paradigms of ontologies and learning objects in authoring tools it is possible to annotate educational contents for generating personalized material. The characteristics introduced in this paper are the learning style best suited to the student, the device used to access the contents and the skill to be developed when using the material. The general architecture of the proposed tool is fundamentally composed of three different and interrelated ontologies: domain, sequencing and content-repository ontologies, where all knowledge about which educative content is taught, how it is taught and how it is organized is respectively stored.

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M. Gascueña J., Fernández-Caballero A. and Gónzalez P. (2007). AN AUTHORING ARCHITECTURE FOR ANNOTATING EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS - Domain, Sequencing and Content-Repository Ontologies . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-92-4, pages 53-60. DOI: 10.5220/0002353900530060


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@conference{iceis07,
author={José M. Gascueña and Antonio Fernández-Caballero and Pascual Gónzalez},
title={AN AUTHORING ARCHITECTURE FOR ANNOTATING EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS - Domain, Sequencing and Content-Repository Ontologies},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={53-60},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002353900530060},
isbn={978-972-8865-92-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - AN AUTHORING ARCHITECTURE FOR ANNOTATING EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS - Domain, Sequencing and Content-Repository Ontologies
SN - 978-972-8865-92-4
AU - M. Gascueña J.
AU - Fernández-Caballero A.
AU - Gónzalez P.
PY - 2007
SP - 53
EP - 60
DO - 10.5220/0002353900530060