A Survey of Ontologies and Their Applications in e-Learning Environments

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https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2061

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Ontology, Semantic Web, e-learning, adaptive learning

Abstract

Ontology technology has been investigated in a wide range of areas and is currently being utilized in many fields. In the e-learning context, many studies have used ontology to address problems such as the interoperability in learning objects, modeling and enriching learning resources, and personalizing educational content recommendations. We systematically reviewed research on ontology for e-learning from 2008 to 2020. The review was guided by 3 research questions: “How is ontology used for knowledge modeling in the context of e-learning?”, “What are the design principles, building methods, scale, level of semantic richness, and evaluation of current educational ontologies?”, and “What are the various ontology-based applications for e-learning?” We classified current educational ontologies into 6 types and analyzed them by 5 measures: design methodology, building routine, scale of ontology, level of semantic richness, and ontology evaluation. Furthermore, we reviewed 4 types of ontology-based e-learning applications and systems. The observations obtained from this survey can benefit researchers in this area and help to guide future research.

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Yi Wang, College of Computer & Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

Yi Wang received her M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Southwest University (China) in 2004 and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Macquarie University (Australia) in 2012. She is an associate professor at the Southwest University (China) since 2014. Her research interests include knowledge representation, ontology development, and service oriented computing.

Ying Wang, College of Computer & Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China

Ying Wang received her B.S. degree in computer science from Southwest Normal University, Chongqing, China, in 2002 and her M.S. degree in computer application from Southwest Normal University, Chongqing, China, in 2005. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in the college of Electrical Information and Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing, China. Her current research interests include semantic web and ontology, video summarization, video delivery, mobile edge computing, and machine learning.

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Wang, Y., & Wang, Y. (2021). A Survey of Ontologies and Their Applications in e-Learning Environments. Journal of Web Engineering, 20(6), 1675–1720. https://doi.org/10.13052/jwe1540-9589.2061

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