An application of intelligent techniques and semantic web technologies in e-learning environments

  • Authors:
  • Anatoly Gladun;Julia Rogushina;Francisco Garcıa-Sanchez;Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar;Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis

  • Affiliations:
  • International Research and Training Centre of Information Technologies and Systems, National Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education of Ukraine, 44 Glushkov Pr., Kiev 03680, Ukraine;Institute of Software Systems, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 44 Glushkov Pr., Kiev 03680, Ukraine;Departamento de Ingenierıa de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia 30071 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain;Departamento de Ingenierıa de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia 30071 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain;Departamento de Informática y Sistemas, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, 30071 Espinardo (Murcia), Spain

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The essential elements of effective learning are control of students' skills and feedback between students and their tutor. The main idea behind the approach presented here is that a domain ontology is not only useful as a learning instrument but it can also be employed to assess students' skills. For it, each student is prompted to express his/her beliefs by building her/his own discipline-related ontology and then it is compared to a reference one. The analysis of students' mistakes allows to propose them personalized recommendations and to improve the course materials in general. In this work, we present a Semantic Web technologies-based multi-agent system that allows to automatically control students' acquired knowledge in e-learning frameworks.