Ontology-based curriculum content sequencing system with semantic rules

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 7838-7847

  Chi, Yu Liang ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Curriculum content sequencing; Learning route; Ontology; Rule

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; EDUCATION; INFORMATION THEORY; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MATERIALS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

COURSE CONTENTS; COURSE MATERIALS; CURRICULUM CONTENT SEQUENCING; E-LEARNING SYSTEMS; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LEARNING GOALS; LEARNING ROUTE; MATHEMATICS COURSE; MULTIPLE SOURCES; ONTOLOGY-BASED; RELIABLE SYSTEMS; RULE; SEMANTIC RULES; SEMANTIC WEB RULE LANGUAGES; SEQUENCING MECHANISMS; SEQUENCING PROBLEMS; TWO COMPONENTS; WEB ONTOLOGY LANGUAGES;

CURRICULA;

EID: 60249096647     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.11.048     Document Type: Article

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