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Semantic Web and Education

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Vladan Devedžić

    1. University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

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  • First book treatment on two "hot button" topics in Information Systems, Computer Science and Education: the application of web technology for educational use
  • Will be attractive to a whole range of educators
  • As an extension of this general educational interest, there are a number of conferences that cover educational technology
  • Some examples are the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) International Conference on Leaning Technologies, International Conference on Web-Based Education and others
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Integrated Series in Information Systems (ISIS, volume 12)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction to Web-Based Education

    Pages 1-28

  3. Introduction to the Semantic Web

    Pages 29-69

  4. The Setting for Semantic Web-Based Education

    Pages 71-99

  5. Architectural Issues

    Pages 101-129

  6. Learning Technology Standardization Efforts

    Pages 131-173

  7. Personalization Issues

    Pages 175-219

  8. Ontological Engineering for Semantic Web-Based Education

    Pages 221-283

  9. Applications and Research

    Pages 285-325

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 327-353
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About this book

Writing the preface for a book feels good, because once you find yourself in a situation to write tiie preface, it usually means that you have already written the rest of the book. Writing this book was a real challenge. I would have probably never written it if there was not Stefan Voss from the University of Hamburg to propose me to write it - thanks Stefan! It may seem that it is not very difficult to describe the application of a relatively young technology, such as the Semantic Web, to the domain of education. It may seem that there is actually not much to write about that topic. But it just seems so. On the contrary, the greatest challenge in writing this book was the abundance of material and exciting ideas about how to apply Semantic Web technologies to education. I knew from the very beginning that I will have to select carefully from many theories, practices, evolving ideas and approaches, and important research efforts, in order to compose a coherent whole. Worse still, I also knew that I will have to leave out of the book many other results, initiatives, and ongoing projects that would certainly be worth describing under more relaxed constraints. Thus, the endeavor was exhausting. The Semantic Web is about how to deploy artificial intelligence concepts and techniques on the Web, in order to harness the Web and make it more useful, more user-centered, and more responsive to human interaction.

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"The semantic Web opens a number of new issues and possibilities for Web-based education, which is the subject of this book. … The book is well written, and contains a wealth of references that can serve for further study. … I recommend it to researchers and students interested in the semantic Web and Web-based education, and to those interested in developing educational applications. I have used this book successfully in a doctoral seminar, but it is also well suited for students seeking their master’s degrees." (M. Bielikova, ACM Computing Reviews, September, 2008)

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  • University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

    Vladan Devedžić

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