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Description
Ontology of educational tools Ontoolcole (VA-146-11). Collaborative learning systems can be developed following the paradigm of service-oriented Informatics. This allows educators to integrate external tools, offered as services by software providers, in order to promote collaborative learning situations. Finding suitable services is a challenging task that requires the description of their capacities. This can be done using Ontoolcole, an ontology of collaborative learning tools designed to support educators on their search for CSCL tools.Other information
Number of researchers:
6
Development status:
Commercialized or in the market
Intellectual Property Rights:
Registro P.I: Ontología de herramientas educativas Ontoolcole (VA-146-11)
Differentiation in the market:
Novelty
Applicability of technology:
Yes
Companies and markets:
Education sector. Training institutions: educators.
Advantages:
The use of educational software tools is increasingly common. However, it is hard for educators to find suitable tools to a specific educational situation: current researchers usually obtain irrelevant results due to the use of keywords in their consultations; besides, knowing what can be done with a specific tool turns out to be hard. To solve these issues, Ontoolcole considers a different approach based on the emergent Semantic Web, suggesting the Ontoolcole vocabulary to note the capabilities of a tool using abstractions accessible to educators. Concepts search can then be made, instead of keywords, which can be integrated without ambiguity by a search system.
Additional Information:
The Group of Intelligent & Cooperative Systems / Education, Media, Informatics & Culture (GSIC/EMIC in its Spanish acronym) is a transdisciplinary group composed by teachers, researchers and staff of the School of Telecommunications Engineering, School of Computer Engineering, and Faculty of Education & Social Work at the University of Valladolid. It is a Recognized Research Group (GIR) by the University of Valladolid and is recognized as a Consolidated Research Unit (UIC) by the Regional Government of Castile & León. The Group of Research GSIC/EMIC lead and collaborate in various research, development and innovation instructional projects, with international, European, national and regional financing.
UNESCO Code:
1203 - Computer Sciences (see 3304)
Other members:
Ioannis Dimitriadis Damoulis
Miguel Luis Bote Lorenzo
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Eduardo Gómez Sánchez
Juan Ignacio Asensio Pérez
Iván Manuel Jorrín Abellán
 | Ontoolcole: Supporting Educators in the Semantic Search of CSCL Tools See / Download resource |
| Semantic search of tools for collaborative learning with the Ontoolsearch system See / Download resource |
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