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Supporting Interoperability and Context-Awareness in E-Learning through Situation-Driven Learning Processes

Supporting Interoperability and Context-Awareness in E-Learning through Situation-Driven Learning Processes

Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781609605391|ISBN10: 1609605403|EISBN13: 9781609605407
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-539-1.ch008
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Dietze, Stefan, et al. "Supporting Interoperability and Context-Awareness in E-Learning through Situation-Driven Learning Processes." Distance Education Environments and Emerging Software Systems: New Technologies, edited by Qun Jin, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 115-137. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-539-1.ch008

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Dietze, S., Gugliotta, A., & Domingue, J. (2011). Supporting Interoperability and Context-Awareness in E-Learning through Situation-Driven Learning Processes. In Q. Jin (Ed.), Distance Education Environments and Emerging Software Systems: New Technologies (pp. 115-137). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-539-1.ch008

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Dietze, Stefan, Alessio Gugliotta, and John Domingue. "Supporting Interoperability and Context-Awareness in E-Learning through Situation-Driven Learning Processes." In Distance Education Environments and Emerging Software Systems: New Technologies, edited by Qun Jin, 115-137. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-539-1.ch008

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Abstract

Current E-Learning technologies primarily follow a data and metadata-centric paradigm by providing the learner with composite content containing the learning resources and the learning process description, usually based on specific metadata standards such as ADL SCORM or IMS Learning Design. Due to the design-time binding of learning resources, the actual learning context cannot be considered appropriately at runtime, what limits the reusability and interoperability of learning resources. This paper proposes Situation-driven Learning Processes (SDLP) which describe learning processes semantically from two perspectives: the user perspective considers a learning process as a course of learning goals which lead from an initial situation to a desired situation, whereas the system perspective utilizes Semantic Web Services (SWS) technology to semantically describe necessary resources for each learning goal within a specific learning situation. Consequently, a learning process is composed dynamically and accomplished in terms of SWS goal achievements by automatically allocating learning resources at runtime. Moreover, metadata standard-independent SDLP are mapped to established standards such as ADL SCORM and IMS LD. As a result, dynamic adaptation to specific learning contexts as well as interoperability across different metadata standards and application environments is achieved. To prove the feasibility, a prototypical application is described finally.

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