Bouchra Bouihi
ABSTRACT
The online learning called e-learning is a new learning path that offers to learners to study at their own pace and at the moments that suit them. It is in this perspective that the semantic web has known its emergence in the field of e-learning to offer platforms content more personalized and more adapted to student's and teacher's needs. Since Moodle is the most popular e-learning platform, we propose in this paper to build its OWL ontology by exploring the representative data that we collected from its UML class diagram. The choice of UML class diagram as a basis for data collection for the development of the ontology is justified by the fact that the transition from UML to OWL ontology brings ontology development process closer to the wider software engineering population. The built ontology brings also great benefit in the field of the Social Learning Network Analysis. Because it gives the opportunity to study the behavior of the platform users by giving meaning to their relationships instead of modelling them only as knots and edges.
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