Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems

Held in conjunction with ICCE 2002

International Conference on Computers in Education 
3-6 December 2002
Auckland, New Zealand
http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz

Summary   Topics   Committee   Proceedings   Accepted Papers  

 Workshop Summary 

With the rapidly increasing popularity of Web-based education, there is a proportional increase of the expectations and requirements towards Web-based Educational Systems (WBES). A challenging research goal at present is the development of advanced adaptive and intelligent WBES. There is an increased recognition of the need for individual support to the learners in their retrieving, evaluating, comprehending, and memorizing information, in their problem solving and efficient task performance in Web-based educational environments. Concept-oriented (ontology-based) architectures come as a promising option in the development of such systems. Conceptual (ontological) structures, such as concept maps, topic maps, and conceptual graphs have a great deal of potential for organizing, processing, and visualizing domain knowledge in WBES. Developments in concept-based visualization and navigation allow the system to help the students get oriented within the subject domain and build up their own understanding and conceptual association. They enhance their visual thinking and memory and trigger associative ways of processing, reflecting and analyzing information.

Concept-oriented support within educational environments has been advocated by various researchers including Mizugoshi, Bourdeau, Kay, Self, Peylo, Murray, Brusilovski, De Bra, Aroyo, Dicheva, Dimitrova, Greer, McCalla, Vassileva, Kommers, Puntambekar, Okamoto, Cristea, and others. The common theme is to use an explicit representation of a well-founded and agreed system of domain concepts (ontology) to advance interoperability and knowledge sharing. A number of developments have been employed to support a variety of instructional and authoring activities within WBES, including information retrieval, hypertext and hypermedia navigation and exploration, problem solving, collaborative learning and training, collaborative courseware authoring, user interaction, etc. Ontology-based architectures have potential to support resource and knowledge reuse as well as WBES adaptivity. The issues of ontological engineering for WBES resources and ontology-aware courseware and authoring become more and more in focus of the AIED society.

Topics     

The goal of the proposed workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of the above-mentioned issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Using conceptual structures (concept maps, conceptual graphs, topic maps, ontologies) in WBES to support

   • knowledge organization and processing (acquisition, systematization, reasoning)
   • information retrieval
   • hypertext and hypermedia navigation and exploration
   • problem solving
   • collaborative learning
   • collaborative courseware authoring
   • user/group interactions

   • adaptivity with respect to learners, instructors, and courseware authors

2. Design and implementation aspects of concept-based WBES

   • architectures and methodologies
   • specification languages
   • visualization of conceptual structures
   • sharing and reuse of conceptual structures

   • conceptual structures and authoring tools

3. Evaluation of concept-based WBES

Program Committee

Lora Aroyo, The Netherlands (co-chair)
Darina Dicheva, USA (co-chair)

Jacqueline Bourdeau, Canada
Peter Brusilovsky, USA
Hugh Davis, United Kingdom
Vania Dimitrova, England
Judy Kay, Australia
Piet Kommers, The Netherlands
Kinshuk, New Zealand
Tanja Mitrovic, New Zealand
Riichiro Mizugushi, Japan
Toshio Okamoto, Japan
Sadhana Puntambekar, USA
Julita Vassileva, Canada

Proceedings

Download the proceedings as a .pdf file

 Accepted papers

1. XMLTutor - an Authoring Tool for Factual Domains, David Abraham and Kalina Yacef

2. Verified Concept Mapping for Eliciting Conceptual Understanding, Laurent Cimolino and Judy Kay

3. A Model of Multitutor Ontology-Based Learning Environments, Antonija Mitrovic and Vladan Devedzic

4. Automatic Extraction of Ontologies from Teaching Document Metadata, Judy Kay and Sam Holden

5. A Support System for Modeling Problem Solving Workflow, Kazuhisa Seta and Motohide Umano

6. LEARNING LINKS: Reusable Assets with Support for Vagueness and Ontology-based Typing, Miguel A. Sicilia, Elena García, Paloma Díaz and Ignacio Aedo

7. Authoring Framework for Concept-based Web Information Systems, Lora Aroyo and Darina Dicheva

8. Theory-aware Authoring Environment - Ontological Engineering Approach, Riichiro Mizoguchi and Jacqueline Bourdeau

9. Automatic Construction of Learning Ontologies, Trent Apted and Judy Kay

Contact: Lora Aroyo & Darina Dicheva

Last modified:     07-mei-2003