Ontoolcole: Supporting Educators in the Semantic Search of CSCL Tools

dc.creatorVega-Gorgojo,Guillermo
dc.creatorBote-Lorenzo,Miguel
dc.creatorGómez-Sánchez,Eduardo
dc.creatorAsensio-Pérez,Juan
dc.creatorDimitriadis,Yannis
dc.creatorJorrín-Abellán,Iván
dc.date2008
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-06T12:56:10Z
dc.date.available2024-02-06T12:56:10Z
dc.descriptionCollaborative learning systems can be constructed following the serviceoriented computing paradigm. This allows educators to integrate external tools, offered as services by software providers, in order to support the realization of collaborative learning situations. Discovering appropriate services is a challenging task that requires the description of their capabilities. This can be accomplished with Ontoolcole, an ontology of collaborative learning tools designed with the aim of supporting educators in the search of CSCL tools. Ontoolcole is depicted here and some new, relevant features are discussed. Namely, Ontoolcole incorporates an artifact module, a task-level coordination module and the description of static information resources, further improving the capabilities to describe complex CSCL tools. As a proof of concept, we also present a preliminary prototype of the intended target application of Ontoolcole, an interactive system for the search of CSCL tools, named Ontoolsearch. A case study with practitioners has been carried out to evaluate whether Ontoolcole can be employed by educators to search CSCL tools. Evaluation results show that Ontoolcole abstractions fit educators' questions based on their real practice while retrieving useful tools for their educational needs.
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dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-014-01-0027
dc.identifierhttps://lib.jucs.org/article/28927/
dc.identifier.urihttps://openrepository.mephi.ru/handle/123456789/9583
dc.languageen
dc.publisherJournal of Universal Computer Science
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/0948-6968
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pissn/0948-695X
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightsJ.UCS License
dc.sourceJUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 14(1): 27-58
dc.subjectontologies
dc.subjectsemantic web services
dc.subjectservice discovery
dc.subjectcollaborative learning systems
dc.subjectCSCL tools
dc.titleOntoolcole: Supporting Educators in the Semantic Search of CSCL Tools
dc.typeResearch Article
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