On Integration of Ontologies into E-Learning Systems

Ontologies represent an immense opportunity and are bringing great advantages to e-learning systems. Their implementation is seen as a better solution for organizing and visualizing didactic knowledge, and for this knowledge to be shared and reused by different educational applications. This paper aims at proposing a model which is focused on integrating ontological principles with e-learning standards. We developed a prototype model that is integrated with an ontology which gives a semantic representation of learning contents by adding semantic notations to each learning resource. The ontology is used for identifying the structure of learning module and defining the needed vocabulary for the student to conceptualize the learning modules. Another special ontology is introduced for learning materials, which is located at the systems metadata. Here, we included also the system access options, results registering and the communications.