SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES FOR E-LEARNING

The notion of Social Semantic Web describes an emerging design approach for building Semantic Web applications which employs Social Software approaches. Social Semantic Web systems usually support collaborative creation, usage and continuous refinement of Semantic Web structures by communities of users. Typically they elicit domain knowledge through semi-formal ontologies, taxonomies or folksonomies. Semantic Web and Social Semantic Web techniques offer new perspectives on intelligent educational systems by supporting more adequate and accurate representations of learners, their learning goals, learning material and contexts of its use, as well as more efficient access and navigation through learning resources. They advance the state-ofthe-art in intelligent educational systems development, so as to achieve improved elearning efficiency, flexibility and adaptation for single users and communities of users (learners, instructors, courseware authors, etc.).