SW-EL'05 Workshop Topics

The SW-EL'05 workshop focused on the use, building and application of semantic web technologies for the needs of e-learning. Each session of the workshop approached this problem from a different perspective, starting with the traditional view on Intelligent Educational Systems (IES) and their movement towards the web and the implications of adopting the semantic web technologies (at ITS 2004), to discussing issues with respect to using adaptive hypermedia as an e-learning medium and to the various ways of constructing courseware and modeling the learner (at AH 2004), and finally to presenting the enabling web technologies for realizing e-learning (at ISWC 2004). Appropriate topics for each of the sessions are listed below, however contributors are free to suggest additional ones. The topics can be approached from different perspectives: theoretical, systems engineering, application, case study and system evaluation, etc.

• Using ontologies and/or semantic web technologies within e-learning applications (to achieve interoperability between educational applications, sharable user models and knowledge components, etc.).
• Ontology engineering and knowledge representation in e-learning systems.
• Using ontologies and/or Semantic Web technologies to support authoring of e-learning systems.
• Using Semantic Web technologies to achieve better personalization and adaptation in e-learning systems (i.e. modularised and standardized architectures, separation of domain models and application models, flexible user models).
• Using Semantic Web services for the purposes of e-learning (i.e. authoring service, user modelling service, etc.). 
• Web standards issues for e-learning, e.g. moving educational standards such as LOM and SCORM closer to the semantic web. 
• Real-world systems, case studies and empirical research for e-learning systems.
• Semantic web-based e-learning architectures.

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