An e-learning platform augmented by learning resource annotation with ontology mapping for exploratory search improvement

摘要

In the educational community, there is strong interest in producing, sharing, and linking educational resources. These educational resources should be annotated to allow for better student usage. These annotations can be performed on the basis of one or more domain ontologies that can guide the user, who typically is not a domain expert, in an exploratory search to guide him/her in the construction of a learning path. This work will present a learning environment organized around courses and lessons composed of learning resources (LR). The content of the LR can be annotated on the basis of one or more domain ontologies. The annotations can be used in different scenarios allowing the augmentation and interlinking the LRs.