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by KOC in his search of situations for his case study.
The case studies issued by the composer can be
extended, complemented or tied to other case studies
from other authors, leading to a collaborative
environment. By using this composer and the
vocabulary proposed by ArCo, it is possible to
capture and make persistent the teachers’ knowledge
in a reusable pedagogical format. The case study
methodology – and this composer in consequence -
promotes the Socratic pedagogy: learning by doing.
The composer also looks for the reuse of the
knowledge produced in real construction scenes in
the classroom, allowing the creation of networks of
relationships among pedagogical materials and
practical knowledge.
4 CONCLUSIONS
The KOC project has already shown great benefits
by its application in academic contexts. Its
contribution does not have to be limited by the effort
that represents for the authors the elaboration and
querying of high level knowledge objects. The
authoring tools try to solve this problem by helping
the authors to define and structure new complex
objects with high level of semantics, ready to be
used by student but also for software agents in the
Semantic Web.
Regarding the experience of KOC and
specifically the use of ArCo, it has been
demonstrated the effectiveness of using ontologies
for knowledge formalization and management, to
ensure communications among teachers and
students, and to make explicit the semantics of the
technical area in Architecture. Nevertheless the
potential use of ontologies can be also profited by
using them as a technology for data integration,
possibly among several instances of KOC or with
other systems.
As a whole, KOC has a good acceptance in the
academic environment; it has been presented in
several national and international conferences and
also has been awarded with international grants.
Starting the second semester of 2009 project KOC
will be used as a pedagogical tool in an
undergraduate course in the Architecture school of
the University.
Nevertheless, KOC could be improved in several
ways, including the addition of new functionalities,
the integration with other systems, its use in other
contexts and the internationalization of the
repository, teaching and learning tools, mobile KOC,
social KOC among others.
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