SW-EL'06

Special Issues

Proceedings

Contact

• SW-EL'06 @ AH'06, June 21-23 2006, Dublin, Ireland
• Supported by the Knowledge Web Network of Excellence

Previous workshop editions:

• SW-EL'05:
  • SW-EL'05 @ ICALT'05, July 5-8, 2005, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • SW-EL'05 @ AIED'05, July 18-22, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • SW-EL'05 @ K-CAP'05, October 2-5, 2005, Banff, Canada

   

• SW-EL'04:
• SW-EL'04 @ AH'04, Session co-chairs: Peter Dolog, Martin Wolpers, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• SW-EL'04 @ ITS'04, Session co-chairs: Tanja Mitrovic, Vladan Devedzic, Maceio, Brazil
• SW-EL'04 @ ISWC'04, Session co-chairs: Riichiro Mizoguchi, Yukihiro Itoh, Hiroshima, Japan

• Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems @ ICCE’2002, Auckland, New Zealand

The Semantic Web offers new technologies to developers of web-based applications aiming at providing more intelligent access and management of the Web information and semantically richer modeling of the applications and their users. An important target for web application developers nowadays is to provide means to unite, as much as possible, their efforts in creating information and knowledge components that are easily accessible and usable by third parties. Within the context of semantic web, there are several hot issues, which allow achieving this reusability, shareability and interoperability among web applications. Conceptualizations (formal taxonomies), ontologies, and the available web standards, such as XML, RDF, XTM, OWL, DAML-S, and RuleML, allow specification of components in a standard way. The notion of web services offers a way to make such components mobile and accessible within the wide sea of web information and applications. The research on e-learning and web-based educational systems (WBES) traditionally combines research interests and efforts from various fields. Currently, the efforts in the field of semantic web and ontologies play an important role in the development of new methods and types of courseware. Starting with the traditional ITS and going towards web applications, the research on adaptive hypermedia strengthens its positions within this context. They all come together in their attempt to serve better the needs of the education community by employing semantic web technologies in order to achieve improved adaptation and flexibility for single and group users (e.g. instructors, courseware authors and learners). Personalisation is becoming increasingly important in the educational Semantic Web context by enabling shared content and services to be tailored to the needs of individual users (learners, content creators, providers, and instructors). The ambitious target is to offer manageable, extendable and standardised infrastructure for complementing and collaborating learning applications tailored to the needs of individual users. The Semantic Web offers a different perspective on AI in Education by providing advanced technologies to support more adequate and accurate representations of learners, their learning goals, learning material and contexts of its use, as well as better access and navigation through the learning resources.

The workshop focuses on the issues of engineering and use of standards in web-based educational systems in the context of semantic web and ontologies. The goal of the workshop is twofold:

• To discuss the current state-of-the-art of the applications of semantic web technologies in WBES.
• To attract the interest of the related research communities to the problems in e-learning and serve as an international platform for knowledge exchange and cooperation between researchers.