Authors:
Héctor Yago Corral
and
Julia Clemente Párraga
Affiliation:
Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Keyword(s):
Semantic Web, Student Ontology, Student’s Learning, Monitoring.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
e-Learning
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Instructional Design
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Ontologies and Meta-Data Standards
;
Web-Based Learning, Wikis and Blogs
Abstract:
In this article, a tool so-called STSIM is presented. It is able to monitor the student’s progress along learning
experiences. This tool, based on semantic web, allows students and teachers to monitor the knowledge
student state including, among others, the learning objective state -achieved and not achieved- in different
types of activities with psychomotors, cognitives or affective competences, and the efficiency accomplished
in activity execution to facilitate the tutor or student the supervision of learning in a more adaptive way
according to the individual characteristics and student knowledge state in each moment. To achieve this
goal, STSIM uses a flexible student model supported by an ontology network, the Student Ontology. The tool
has been developed to be multiplatform, multilingual, based on current and open-source web technology and
characterized by its usability. STSIM is built on the UML-based web engineering (UWE) methodology and
the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.