Ontology Based Conceptual Framework of E-Learning System –The Future Perspective

Abstract

The e-learning community is aiming at having much more effective services than which is currently provided by any one of the available computer aided tutoring or learning management systems. Students and researchers need vast amount of material and spend considerable amount of time trying to learn about a particular subject or find relevant information. The success of the web information accessing has encouraged the researchers in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) and LMS to focus on issues of interoperability and reuse. Ontologies are used and addressed by the community as an important requirement to define content semantics; assure the interoperability between educational systems. The use of ontologies and the advent of intelligent services for developing the web content, web filters, intelligent search engines and other applications are transforming the web of information into the semantic web. The aim of this paper describes the role of ontologies in the web learning management systems and the standards for describing, developing, exchanging, accessing, annotating, combining and qualifying educational resources. We conclude this paper by provoking the future ideas of research in the areas of ontologies and e-learning system.