Contextualizing learning objects using ontologies

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 339-355

  Mohammed, Phaedra ^a   Mohan, Permanand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Context; Learning objects; LOM metadata; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; LEARNING OBJECTS; LEARNING RESOURCES; LOM METADATA; ONTOLOGIES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547164999     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: 14678640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2007.00309.x     Document Type: Article

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