TY - GEN
T1 - Ontology-based framework for context-aware mobile learning
AU - Berri, Jawad
AU - Benlamri, Rachid
AU - Atif, Yacine
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Mobile learning is becoming an important research topic as people are increasingly connected through smart phones that combine telephony, computing, messaging, and multimedia. The process of designing, communicating and presenting learning resources for mobile learners poses new challenges to the research community. This is mainly due to the limited bandwidth of wireless networks, limited resource available on mobile devices, and the special requirements of mobile learners. In this paper, an attempt is made to solve some of these problems by proposing an ontology-based framework for context-aware mobile learning. The system consists mainly of a rule-based ontology and a search agent. The rule-based ontology component is driven by the learner profile to contextualize learning content accordingly. The goal is to extract from a source ontology a lightweight target ontology by firing a set of rules based on the learner profile. The extracted conceptual knowledge is then mapped to a set of learning objects that meet the technical requirements of the used mobile technology. The mapping is geared by a search agent that searches a set of distributed learning objects repositories for feasible lightweight learning objects.
AB - Mobile learning is becoming an important research topic as people are increasingly connected through smart phones that combine telephony, computing, messaging, and multimedia. The process of designing, communicating and presenting learning resources for mobile learners poses new challenges to the research community. This is mainly due to the limited bandwidth of wireless networks, limited resource available on mobile devices, and the special requirements of mobile learners. In this paper, an attempt is made to solve some of these problems by proposing an ontology-based framework for context-aware mobile learning. The system consists mainly of a rule-based ontology and a search agent. The rule-based ontology component is driven by the learner profile to contextualize learning content accordingly. The goal is to extract from a source ontology a lightweight target ontology by firing a set of rules based on the learner profile. The extracted conceptual knowledge is then mapped to a set of learning objects that meet the technical requirements of the used mobile technology. The mapping is geared by a search agent that searches a set of distributed learning objects repositories for feasible lightweight learning objects.
KW - Ontology
KW - Semantic web
KW - Wireless and mobile learning
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U2 - 10.1145/1143549.1143811
DO - 10.1145/1143549.1143811
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33846668465
SN - 1595933069
SN - 9781595933065
T3 - IWCMC 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
SP - 1307
EP - 1310
BT - IWCMC 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
T2 - IWCMC 2006 - 2006 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
Y2 - 3 July 2006 through 6 July 2006
ER -