Educação a distância e a WEB Semântica: modelagem ontológica de materiais e objetos de aprendizagem para a plataforma COL.

The World Wide Web is turning itself into a huge virtual library, where a piece of information about any subject is available at any time in any place, with or without fees, creating opportunities in several areas of human knowledge. Education is no exception among this areas. Although many Web based educational applications have been recently developed, some problems in the area have not been solved yet. Among these is the search for more intelligent and effective object learning and materials, since the World Wide Web information is not structured, nor organized. The machines do not ¿understand¿ neither ¿interpret¿ the meaning of semantic information. In order to restructure the World Wide Web there is a new technology, known as Web Semantics, being developed. It aims to structure and organize information for more intelligent and effective search, making use of the ontology concept. This work presents an ontological modeling for learning subjects and materials, based on the Web Semantics Technology for the long distance education platform CoL ¿ Courses on LARC. This proposal extends such platform, adding to it the possibility of organizing and structuring its learning materials, making possible more ¿intelligent¿ and structured searches on the materials as well as making possible the re-use of the materials contents.

2003