The Generation of E-Learning Exercise Problems from Subject Ontologies

  • Authors:
  • Edmond Holohan;Mark Melia;Declan McMullen;Claus Pahl

  • Affiliations:
  • Dublin City University, Ireland;Dublin City University, Ireland;Dublin City University, Ireland;Dublin City University, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • ICALT '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The teaching/ learning of cognitive skills, such as problem-solving, is an important goal in most forms of education. In well-structured subject areas certain exercise problem types may be precisely described by means of machine-processable knowledge structures or ontologies. These ontologies can readily be used to generate individual problem examples for the student, where each problem consists of a question and its solution. An example is given from the subject domain of computer databases.