Six Scenarios of Exploiting an Ontology Based, Mobilized Learning Environment

Ontologies And Adaptive Learning Content Delivery

Adaptivity and semantic technology are used in several ways in educational content delivery. These ways include interoperability, collaboration and context aware content management. Examples show that one way of using ontologies in a learning system is supporting interoperability between particular educational platforms and systems (Aroyo et al., 2006; Moreale & Vargas-Vera, 2004). When it comes to collaboration the notions of ontology based applications in eLearning systems show that semantic-enabled annotation and knowledge management systems provide flexible, real-time support for collaborative learning tasks (Yang, Chen, & Shao, 2004).

Context awareness can be treated as a problem of processing sensory information coming from mobile devices and transforming this information into a well defined context, which can be done in several ways, including ontologies and clustering maps (Flanagan, 2005). Furthermore, ontologies can also be useful for context identification and reasoning (Hu & Moore, 2007), thus there are also attempts to use ontologies for modelling not only the learner’s context but also the content’s context in order to provide more user specific services in ubiquitous learning environments (Yang, Huang, Chen, Tseng, & Shen, 2006).