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Pedagogical benefits of the semantic web

Pedagogical benefits of the semantic web. Tommy Nordeng, CEO of Cerpus AS Developer of pedagogical tools for computer aided learning brainbank.no & kuling.net Consultant advisor for National Digital Learning Arena. Learning and understanding. The brain is an associative structure

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Pedagogical benefits of the semantic web

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  1. Pedagogical benefits of the semantic web • Tommy Nordeng, CEO of Cerpus AS • Developer of pedagogical tools for computer aided learning • brainbank.no & kuling.net • Consultant advisor for National Digital Learning Arena

  2. Learning and understanding • The brain is an associative structure • neurons and synapses • The building blocks of knowledge • concepts and associations • The organizing units of information • terms (keywords/tags) and references

  3. students in the information jungle • with more information it is easier to get lost • - Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom (Frank Zappa) • When it comes to pedagogics, everything is NOT miscellaneous!

  4. kuling.net • a pedagogical site for local history and geography • contributions from experts AND amateurs • content separated by contributors’ role • structured by topics and relations • everyone can enter new topics • open source, developed on ZTM

  5. National Digital Learning Arena (NDLA) Short history: • 2006: Ministry of Education announces free learning resources to secondary schools • NDLA: National strategy for providing free digital learning resources - Access system chosen by MoE: Drupal on fag.utdanning.no 6 NASJONAL DIGITAL LÆRINGSARENA

  6. Status • 3 subjects • Norwegian • Natural Sciences • Health and Social Sciences • Hundreds of newly produced/commissioned learning resource available In the pipeline • User interaction and contribution • More subjects domains • Many more of learning resources • Semantic technology!!!! 7 NASJONAL DIGITAL LÆRINGSARENA

  7. 2 level user model Editors • Defined vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies. • Cross references between subjects etc • Formal ontologies, GREP, ++ Learners • Folksonomies, tags • New relations and instances (learning resources) 8 NASJONAL DIGITAL LÆRINGSARENA

  8. our knowledge my knowledge top down bottom up “decided” knowledge expert knowledge Sources of knowledge

  9. learning resource providers the topic maps way school authorities the traditional way curriculum (law) local schools pupils national tests and examns text books curriculum learning goals - research - evaluation digital learning resources plans ePortfolio - school plans - individual plans - adaptive learning from plan to action

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