Semantic web technologies for pre-School cognitive skills tutoring system

Abbas Azeem, M. and Wan Ahmad, W.F. and Kalid, K.S. (2014) Semantic web technologies for pre-School cognitive skills tutoring system. Journal of Information Science and Engineering, 30 (3). pp. 835-851. ISSN 10162364

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Abstract

Current teaching strategies mainly follow instructional or constructive pedagogical models. In instructional model learning, contents are authored for teaching and evaluation of a concept. Whilst in constructive model, a student is exposed to the learning environment that allows him to learn new concepts, and his actions provide an evaluation of his understanding of the concept. Manual authoring of such learning contents not only requires specialized skills, thinking and dedication, but they also take large amount oftime. Similarly within instructional environment, authoring any new content that supports the current teaching activity is very difficult. This paper presents an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that facilitates the authoring of learning contents for both instructional and constructive teaching strategies. Proposed ITS uses semantic web formalism, namely ontology, for knowledge representation. This work shows that ontologies correctly and consistently models the domain knowledge that supports pedagogical activities, software development activities, ITS user friendly interface and provides robust reasoning facilityfor creation of dynamic contents. The proposed ITS provides authoring facility explicitly for teaching cognitive skills such as classification, relatedness, comparison (sequencing, discrimination, size etc.) and reasoning. With the use of ontologies, cognitive skills aretranslated into concepts/classes and properties/roles with restrictions. Reasoning and inferenceprovided by ontologies are used for dynamic authoring of learning contents. Finally evaluation of proposed ITS is conducted for its correctness and consistency of domain knowledge, usability and efficiency & effectiveness of contents authoring.

Item Type: Article
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Uncontrolled Keywords: Education computing; Knowledge representation; Semantic Web; Teaching, Architectures for educational technology system; Authoring tools and methods; Cognitive skill; Elementary education; Intelligent tutoring system, Computer aided instruction
Depositing User: Mr Ahmad Suhairi UTP
Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2023 16:17
Last Modified: 09 Nov 2023 16:17
URI: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/id/eprint/5305

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