A multi-strategy knowledge interoperability framework for heterogeneous learning objects

Ming-Che Lee

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.09.157

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A multi-strategy knowledge interoperability framework for heterogeneous learning objects

2011-05-01

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DOI：10.1016/j.eswa.2010.09.157

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This paper presents a knowledge exchange framework that can leverage the interoperability among semantically heterogeneous learning objects. With the release of various e-Learning standards, learning contents and digital courses are easy to achieve cross-platform sharing, exchanging, and even reorganizing. However, knowledge sharing in semantic level is still a challenge due to that the learning materials can be presented in any form, such as audios, videos, web pages, and even flash files. The proposed knowledge exchange framework allows users to share their learning materials (also called learning objects) in semantic level automatically. This framework contains two methodologies: the first is a semantic mapping between knowledge bases (i.e. ontologies) which have essentially similar concepts, and the second is an ontology-based classification algorithm for sharable learning objects. The proposed algorithm adopts the IMS DRI standard and classifies the sharable learning objects from heterogeneous repositories into a local knowledge base by their inner meaning instead of keyword matching. Significance of this research lies in the semantic inferring rules for ontology mapping and learning objects classification as well as the full automatic processing and self-optimizing capability. Focused on digital learning materials and contrasted to other traditional technologies, the proposed approach has experimentally demonstrated significantly improvement in performance. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

Heterogeneous databases

Interoperability

Learning objects

Ontology

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