Educational ontologies construction for personalized learning on the web

Abstract

Educational resources available on the Web are invaluable learning objects that should not only be accessible, sharable and informative, but also reusable, constructive, and responsive to various pedagogical aspects. Using "Ontology", the knowledge representation core of the Semantic Web, to organize, personalize, and publish learning resources and to discover, generate and compose learning objects has been widely proposed. In response to the diverse education needs, especially learning on the Web, this chapter addresses the issues and methodologies in the design and construction of education ontology and discusses the necessities of such an education ontology that can help retrieving, organizing, and recommending educational resources for personalized learning. Follow a systematic ontology construction approach, the design and implementation of a Personalized Education Ontology (PEOnto) will demonstrate the flexibilities of ontology usages in performing different education tasks as well as enhancing system extensibilities and exchangeabilities. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.