Semantic Technologies in

E-learning

Julija Lapuh Bele, B2 Ltd.

David Rozman, B2 Ltd.ICL2010 | Hasselt, Belgium | September 16th 2010

Introduction | Slovenia

Agility of

2 mio

population

Service

based

economy

Perfect

holiday

destination

TOWN BLED

Introduction | Company Profile

Time & size

• Established in 1989

• 35 fully employed at the moment

Core business

• Computer trainings for business users

• Private college (formal education)

• ICT services (custom IT solutions, ERP)

• Full e-learning provider

Practical Issues

Vir

: rec

ipet

ips.

com

How to make a wallnut roll? (recipe)

How to prepare a delicios one? (others’ experience)

How to get all info about it, e.g. ingredients cost,

where to buy them /at very this moment/…?

Web Has All the Answers

Reaching the answer through

content in the web

Web 1.0HTTP, HTML, XML, SQL…

Web 2.0JAVA, FLASH, AJAX, RSS…

Web 3.0RDF, OWL, SPARQL…

Web 3.0 ~ Semantic Web

• Readable, but not alsounderstandable to machinesWeb content

• Computers shoud do more unpleasant work when searching, exchanging and combining data

Aim

• From ‘web of documents’ to ‘webof linked data’ Leap

Couple of Examples

What are nearestfree hotel rooms

near ICL conference?

Which Belgiumtraditional

restaurant is closestto my current

location and is stillopen?

Vir

i: m

aps.

goo

gle.

com

, ww

w.w

ise

corp

.cn

How Does Semantic Web Work?

Elements

Linked data andrelationships

• Sintax (XML)

• Semantics (RDF)

• Tripples

Dictionaries or ontologies

• OWL

Querying linkeddata

• SPARQL

Inferential rules

• Deduction bymachines support

<HEADER>Jack Johnson</HEADER>...

(Jack Johnson) :is (AUTHOR)

TEXT EDITORS WORD DOCUMENT HEADERLEARNING OBJECTIVES ESSAY HEADER

IF (ESSAY) :contains (AUTHOR)

THEN (ESSAY) :has_status (COPYRIGHT)

Semantic Web in Education

Innovations in education

• Technologies

• Pedagogicalapproaches

Probabledevelopment

• Personalized VLEs

Semantic webcontribution

• Ontologies and rules

• Data of learningstyle & progress

E-learning Fundamentals

E-content Technology Services

LMS | LCMS | E-classrooms | Multilanguage | Corporate & Academic groups

eCampus on

the Road to Web 3.0

New functionalitiessupported by semantics

Advanced e-contentsearch

E-content adaption to students learning

style

Individuallycustomized learning

path

Autolinking e-contentkeywords with

external sources

Knowledge Base

Metadata of e-learning content, e-courses and students’ activities

ChallengesTechnical

view• Not widely spread/used yet

• Lack of experts

Contentview

• Content standards(ECDL syllabus)

• Copyright issues

Pedagogicalview

• E-content adoptionconsideration

• “Big Brother”

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Thank you!

Julija Lapuh Bele, David Rozman

B2 d.o.o. | www.b2.eu

Aim > more intuitive and

immersive learning experience