New Semantic Technology Trends: An Opportunity for E-Learning Environment
New Semantic Technology Trends: An Opportunity for E-Learning Environment

Summary/Abstract: E-learning is a massive industry in the world wide web from our days and helps people to easily distribute and access content, without any boundaries from websites or learning system. With this ability, the e-learning environment is also facing a lot of challenges: the different learning methods, technical requirements for online courses, the usability, security, multi-platforms, web standard, etc. The today semantic technology trends are influencing the e-learning traditional approach and it provides a lot of solutions to those challenges. Semantic technologies can keep up with the evolution of web environment, can provides the capability to understand human necessities and define awareness system in e-learning. The e-learning approaches needs to have a technology base, to sustain the needed learning methods for the user and to be easily adaptable and usable in any situation. As far as we know, the e-learning system is represented in the virtual environment by visual and textual information, each educational training or student lecture is heavily relying on the content offered. A short example of the benefits of semantic technologies is that they simplify the search mode. A student will always look for keywords instead of complex phrases, so the reasoning between the defined terms helps to make a more effective search. From this point of view, e-learning system has increased significantly based on the evolution of semantic technologies, is being used by a lot of teachers that want to share their knowledge to students and also is very popular with companies, which are looking forward in offering a learning program to employees. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that e-learning domain combined with semantic technologies, has a huge potential and is a successful combination of the teaching system.

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