International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL'05)

The SW-EL'05 workshop at AIED'05 covers topics related to the use of ontologies for knowledge representation in intelligent educational systems, modularised and standardized architectures, achievement of interoperability between intelligent learning applications, sharable user models and knowledge components and support for authoring of intelligent educational systems. Two focus-sessions are included in the workshop: 1) Application of Semantic Web technologies for Adaptive Learning Systems, which focuses on personalization and adaptation in educational systems (flexible user models), ontology-based reasoning for personalising the educational Semantic Web, and on techniques and methods to capture and employ learner semantics. 2) Application of Semantic Web technologies for Educational Information Systems, which focuses on Semantic Web-based indexing/annotation of educational content (incl. individual and community based), on ontology-based information browsing and retrieval and Semantic Web/ontology based recommender systems. Papers presented in the workshop illustrate Semantic Web-based methods, techniques, and tools for building and sharing educational content, models of users, and personalisation components; services in the context of intelligent educational systems (i.e. authoring service, user modelling service, etc.) and ontology evolution, versioning and consistency. A key part of the reported results are related to empirical research on Intelligent Educational Systems presenting real-world systems and case studies and providing community and individual support by using Semantic Web-technologies and ontologies. The workshop is also a forum for presenting research performed within the context of the KALEIDOSCOPE and PROLEARN network of excellences. Other editions of the SW-EL workshop include: • SW-EL'05 at ICALT'05, Kaohsiung, Taiwan • SW-EL'05 at AIED'05, Amsterdam, The Netherlands • SW-EL'05 at K-CAP'05, Banff, Canada • SW-EL'04 at AH'04, Eindhoven, The Netherlands • SW-EL'04 at ITS'04, Maceio, Brazil • SW-EL'04 at ISWC'04, Hiroshima, Japan General workshop web site: http://www.win.tue.nl/SW-EL/index.html