Ontoolcole: Supporting Educators in the Semantic Search of CSCL Tools

Abstract: Collaborative 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 On...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: JUCS
• Authors: Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, Eduardo Gómez-Sánchez, Juan I. Asensio-Pérez, Yannis A. Dimitriadis, Iván M. Jorrín-Abellán
• Keywords: Collaborative Learning, Collaborative Learning Systems, CSCL Tools, JUCS 2008