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Ontological Support for Web Courseware Authoring

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2002)

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In this paper we present an ontology- oriented authoring support system for Web-based courseware. This is an elaboration of our approach to knowledge classification and indexing in the previously developed system AIMS (Agent-based Information Management System) aimed at supporting students while completing learning tasks in a Web-based learning/training environment. By introducing ontology- based layers in the courseware authoring architecture we aim at using subject domain ontology as a basis for formal semantics and reasoning support in performing generic authoring tasks. We also focus on cooperative authoring, which allows re-usage and sets the basis for authoring collaboration. To exemplify our method we define a set of generic tasks related to concept- based courseware authoring and present their ontological support by the newly added operational and assistant layers in the AIMS architecture.

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  1. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Lora Aroyo & Alexandra Cristea

  2. Winston-Salem State University, USA

    Darina Dicheva

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  1. LIRMM, University of Montpellier II and CNRS, Montpellier, France

    Stefano A. Cerri

  2. LIUPPA, IUT de Bayonne - University of Pau, Bayonne, France

    Guy Gouardères

  3. Department of Information Technologies, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil

    Fàbio Paraguaçu

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Aroyo, L., Dicheva, D., Cristea, A. (2002). Ontological Support for Web Courseware Authoring. In: Cerri, S.A., Gouardères, G., Paraguaçu, F. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2363. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47987-2_31

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