An intelligent semantic e-learning framework using context-aware Semantic Web technologies

British Journal of Educational Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 351-373

  Huang, Weihong ^a   Webster, David ^b   Wood, Dawn ^b   Ishaya, Tanko ^b,c  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Internet Computing   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL RELATIONS; E-LEARNING FRAMEWORK; LEARNING OBJECT METADATA (LOM); SHARABLE CONTENT OBJECT REFERENCE MODEL (SCORM);

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; METADATA; SEMANTICS; SPECIFICATIONS; WEBSITES; XML;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33646010680     PISSN: 00071013     EISSN: 14678535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2006.00610.x     Document Type: Article

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