E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age
E-Learning: Strategies for Delivering Knowledge in the Digital Age
Visualizing Topic Maps for e-Learning
ICALT '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
Retrieving information in topic maps: the case of TM4L
ACM-SE 45 Proceedings of the 45th annual southeast regional conference
An improved platform for medical E-Learning
ICWL'07 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Advances in web based learning
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The paper presents a topic map graphical view successfully used in medical education. The technological development and the Internet contributed to the development of e-learning resources, repositories and digital libraries for medical domain. Because many of them are structured as databases, the paper proposes also an original algorithm for automated mapping of a relational database to a topic map. This process assumes topic generation corresponding to the database, tables, records and columns. It assumes also association building corresponding to relationships between tables, database and tables, tables and records, tables and columns. Topic maps include as basic elements topics and associations between them. At the basic level, topics represent in fact the learning objects stored in the database, and the associations represent the semantic relationships between them. The learners can use the topic map as a navigation tool. They can navigate through topic map depending on their interest subject, they can learn about the semantic context, in which a collection and its single items are embedded. The students in medical domain consider the proposed topic map graphical view very intuitive, especially because it allows the graphical visualization of the associations between topics that are in fact learning objects.