TY - GEN
T1 - A Pragmatic Use of Semantic Web Technologies for Preschool Cognitive Skills Tutoring System
AU - Abbas, Muhammad Azeem
AU - Ahmad, Wan Fatimah Wan
AU - Kalid, Khairul Shafee
N1 - © Copyright 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/7/30
Y1 - 2014/7/30
N2 - Primarily preschool cognitive skills are abilities of acquiring generic knowledge. Generic knowledge is said to be the knowledge about kinds of things. Currently these cognitive skills are taught through the use of pre-authored (in the form of books or worksheets) learning contents containing the objects and concepts of the real world. This method of teaching is known as instructional pedagogy that has several limitations such as it require specialized skills and a large amount of time for content authoring, thinking and dedication and it does not support individualized learning. As a remedy to the limitations of instructional pedagogy, constructive pedagogical method provides learning through exploration. The present work proposes an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that follows the constructive approach for preschool cognitive skills tutoring. The proposed ITS uses the Semantic Web technologies namely Ontologies and Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) for the construction of a rule-based ITS. The reason is, Ontologies natively (by definition) provides a formal explicit way of modeling concepts in a domain of discourse specially the real world objects and also support rule base reasoning. Finally shortcomings of the existing knowledge sources (ontologies) and step by step processing of the inference engine to generate learning contents is provided in the present work.
AB - Primarily preschool cognitive skills are abilities of acquiring generic knowledge. Generic knowledge is said to be the knowledge about kinds of things. Currently these cognitive skills are taught through the use of pre-authored (in the form of books or worksheets) learning contents containing the objects and concepts of the real world. This method of teaching is known as instructional pedagogy that has several limitations such as it require specialized skills and a large amount of time for content authoring, thinking and dedication and it does not support individualized learning. As a remedy to the limitations of instructional pedagogy, constructive pedagogical method provides learning through exploration. The present work proposes an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) that follows the constructive approach for preschool cognitive skills tutoring. The proposed ITS uses the Semantic Web technologies namely Ontologies and Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) for the construction of a rule-based ITS. The reason is, Ontologies natively (by definition) provides a formal explicit way of modeling concepts in a domain of discourse specially the real world objects and also support rule base reasoning. Finally shortcomings of the existing knowledge sources (ontologies) and step by step processing of the inference engine to generate learning contents is provided in the present work.
KW - Semantic Web
KW - DBpedia
KW - Freebase
KW - Intelligent Tutoring System
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84938803771&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6868429
U2 - 10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868429
DO - 10.1109/ICCOINS.2014.6868429
M3 - Conference publication
SN - 978-1-4799-4391-3
T3 - 2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, ICCOINS 2014 - A Conference of World Engineering, Science and Technology Congress, ESTCON 2014 - Proceedings
BT - 2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, ICCOINS 2014 - A Conference of World Engineering, Science and Technology Congress, ESTCON 2014 - Proceedings
PB - IEEE
CY - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
T2 - 2014 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences, ICCOINS 2014
Y2 - 3 June 2014 through 5 June 2014
ER -