Ontology of e-learning applications

Abstract

E-learning became very popular on various levels of education (from primary to academic) and as a way of business training. Each organization which is considering implementation of this type of distance learning must choose a software platform. This decision requires complex knowledge from the area of e-learning methodology, available platforms in dimension of costs, technological requirements and (what is the most important) their functionalities. Of course, there is a lot of supporting literature and websites. However, from the decision maker's point of view it would be helpful to have a kind of expert system, which presents e-learning knowledge in a suitable and reasonable way. The goal of that article is presentation of a prototype of e-learning application ontology (this approach enables to reflect multidimensionality of the domain) which in further research will be used as knowledge base for the expert system.