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Ontologies and Semantic Web for E-Learning

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Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training

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This article discusses the area of ontologies and semantic web technologies in E-Learning and compares the state of research in years 2004 and 2006. It considers the impact of ontologies on the web-based educational systems (WBES). It then presents an ontology of the area of ontologies for education along with a community web portal (O4E) driven by that ontology. Finally, it presents a use case of semantic web technologies as enabling technologies for building WBES: the case of TM4L. Topic Maps for E-Learning (TM4L) is an authoring environment for building ontology-aware standards-based repositories of learning materials (objects).

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Winston-Salem State University, 3206 E.J. Jones Computer Science Building 601 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Winston Salem, N.C., 27110, USA

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  1. Information Systems for Production and Operations Management, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 9, 45141, Essen, Germany

    Heimo H. Adelsberger

  2. School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, 1 University Drive, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3, Canada

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  3. Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Jyväskylä, Agora PL 35, 40014, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Jan M. Pawlowski

  4. Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece

    Demetrios G. Sampson

  5. Advanced e-Services for the Knowledge Society Research Unit Informatics and Telematics Institute, Center for Research and Technology - Hellas, 150 Androutsou Str., GR-18532, Piraeus, Greece

    Demetrios G. Sampson

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Dicheva, D. (2008). Ontologies and Semantic Web for E-Learning. In: Adelsberger, H.H., Kinshuk, Pawlowski, J.M., Sampson, D.G. (eds) Handbook on Information Technologies for Education and Training. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74155-8_3

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