IWT: A Semantic Web-based Educational System

The Semantic Web seems to be a challenge for educational system aiming to accomplish the AAAL: Anytime, Anywhere, Anybody Learning. In this scenario an innovative e-learning solution named IWT, Intelligent Web Teacher, coming from Italian and European research projects, actually employed in many Italian high schools, enterprises and university departments, started to do it some years ago. IWT is able to model educational domains knowledge, users' competences and preferences by a Semantic Web approach in order to create personalized and contextualized learning activities and to allow users to communicate, to cooperate, to dynamically create new content to deliver and information to share as well as enabling platform for e-learning 2.0.

[1]  Martin Hepp,et al.  OntoWiki: community-driven ontology engineering and ontology usage based on Wikis , 2006, WikiSym '06.

[2]  Wolfgang Nejdl,et al.  Ontologies and Metadata for eLearning , 2004, Handbook on Ontologies.

[3]  Pierluigi Ritrovato,et al.  LIA: An Intelligent Advisor for e-Learning , 2008, WSKS.

[4]  Angelo Gaeta,et al.  Exploiting Tagging in Ontology-based e-Learning , 2009 .

[5]  Matteo Gaeta,et al.  E-learning: a model and process proposal , 2006, Int. J. Knowl. Learn..

[6]  Matteo Gaeta,et al.  RSS-Generated Contents through Personalizing e-Learning Agents , 2009, 2009 Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications.

[7]  Riichiro Mizoguchi,et al.  Research Directions on Semantic Web and Education , 2008 .

[8]  Pierluigi Ritrovato,et al.  On-demand Construction of Personalized Learning Experiences Using Semantic Web and Web 2.0 Techniques , 2009, 2009 Ninth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies.

[9]  Thomas R. Gruber,et al.  Collective knowledge systems: Where the Social Web meets the Semantic Web , 2008, J. Web Semant..

[10]  Tim O'Reilly,et al.  What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software , 2007 .

[11]  Steffen Staab,et al.  EDUTELLA: Searching and Annotating Resources within an RDF-based P2P Network , 2002, Semantic Web Workshop.

[12]  Pierluigi Ritrovato,et al.  Advanced ontology management system for personalised e-Learning , 2009, Knowl. Based Syst..

[13]  Steffen Staab,et al.  eLearning based on the semantic web , 2001 .