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Ontology-Based Edutainment System

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006 (ICCSA 2006)

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Recently the Semantic Web is emerging as a solution to problems in the existing Web. The outstanding features of the Semantic Web could contribute to establishing more effective e-learning systems than a conventional web-based e-learning system. However, studies on its applications to e-learning are insufficient. In this paper, we present a new edutainment e-learning system that uses the Semantic Web technology. We extract learning contents from middle school textbooks to generate our ontology. With the ontology, we are developing a learner assessment system, a learning guidance system, and an edutainment learning system. The learner assessment system assesses the current state of a learner’s knowledge in the ontology. The learning guidance system categorizes the learners based on the results of the assessment system and dynamically generates a learning course to each learner. The edutainment learning system provides templates for making game-like items. We shall describe them respectively and state relations among them. Our system will be a good model of edutainment e-learning systems based on Semantic Web technologies.

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  1. Department of Computer Education, Cheju National University, 66 Jejudaehakno, Jeju, 690-756, Korea

    Cheol Min Kim, Hye Sun Kim & Seong Baeg Kim

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina Gavrilova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    Hyunseung Choo

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Kim, C.M., Kim, H.S., Kim, S.B. (2006). Ontology-Based Edutainment System. In: Gavrilova, M., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3980. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751540_31

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