An Ontology-Based Development Framework for Edutainments

Author

Ling, Yun ; Gu, Huamao ; Wang, Xun

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Zhejiang Gongshang Univ., Hangzhou, China

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

19-19 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

343

Lastpage

346

Abstract

Although there are many edutainments in market yet, they are still not popular among school teaching due to the game developerspsila lack of teaching experience. This paper proposed a concept of ldquomade by teacherrdquo in game development, and presented an ontology-based edutainment development framework (OEDF) that assists teachers to design easily educational games at their wills. In OEDF, Ontology is employed to structure the sharable knowledge of game industries and the knowledge in textbooks. Moreover, this framework has been implemented in ParaEngine, a simple yet comprehensive and distributed 3D online game engine. Besides, the developing procedure for educational game under the OEDF framework is also provided. At the same time, a segment of an educational game has been developed based on the OEDF framework.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer games; ontologies (artificial intelligence); teaching; distributed 3D online game engine; educational game; game developer; ontology-based edutainment development framework; school teaching; Appraisal; Education; Educational institutions; Engines; Information management; Knowledge representation; Layout; OWL; Ontologies; Seminars; Edutainment; OWL; Ontology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Business and Information Management, 2008. ISBIM '08. International Seminar on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3560-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISBIM.2008.39

Filename

5117498