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What is LOCO-Analyst? LOCO-Analyst is an educational tool aimed at providing teachers with feedback on the relevant aspects of the learning process taking place in a web-based learning environment, and thus helps them improve the content and the structure of their web-based courses. LOCO-Analyst aims at providing teachers with feedback regarding: *  all kinds of activities their students performed and/or took part in during the learning process, *  the usage and the comprehensibility of the learning content they had prepared and deployed in the LCMS, *  contextualized social interactions among students (i.e., social networking) in the virtual learning environment. This Web site provides some basic information about LOCO-Analyst, its functionalities and implementation. In addition, you can watch videos illustrating the tool's functionalities. You can also learn about the LOCO (Learning Object Context Ontologies) ontological framework that lies beneath the LOCO-Analyst tool and download the ontologies of this framework.

"The mantra of the information age has been "The more information the better!" But what happens when we search the web and get so much information that we can't sort through it, let alone evaluate it? Enter the semantic web, or Web 3.0. Among other things, the semantic web makes information more meaningful to people by making it more understandable to machines."

"Earlier this month, I wrote about the Higher Education sector's interest in the opportunities presented by use of semantic technologies. Today I published a podcast with Thanassis Tiropanis, project manager for the recently finished SemTech report and co-organiser of a workshop on Semantic Web applications for learning and teaching which takes place in Nice on 30 September."

"A place for anything related to K-12 and higher education applications of the semantic web."

"SemHE 2009: Semantic web applications for learning and teaching support in higher education"

"Semantic Web: Web 3.0 in Education"

"Intro to the Semantic Web, LITA Social Software Showcase 2009"

a few researchers but no solid examples I know a few people (especially some professors in the teaching-oriented universities) who are working on this technology. But as far as I know, they are individual experiments and no significant examples so far that are really exciting.

eLearning is fast, relevant and just-in-time learning grown from the learningrequirements of the new, dynamically changing, distributed business world. The term „Semantic Web" encompasses efforts to build a new WWW architecture that supports content with formal semantics, which enables better possibilities for searching and navigating through the cyberspace. As such, the Semantic Web represents a promising technology for realizing eLearning requirements. This paper presents an approach for implementing the eLearning scenario using Semantic Web technologies. It is primarily based on ontology-based descriptions of content, context and structure of the learning materials and benefits the providing of and accessing to the learning materials.

Select ARIES Publications Welcome to the laboratory for Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems (ARIES). The lab was founded in 1987 with the goal of deepening both research and practice in intelligent systems and how they apply to teaching and learning. Faculty, staff, and students within the laboratory contribute to numerous academic areas, such as user modeling, artificial intelligence, adaptive hypermedia, e-learning, and information visualization. The laboratory is headed by Dr. Gordon McCalla, and is funded in part by the the TeleLearning Network Centres of Excellence (1995-1999), and the LORNET NSERC Research Network (2003-Present). ARIES is one of the many laboratories within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saskatchewan.

Dragan Gasevic's home page (2002-2008) Refereed International Journal Editorial, Refereed International Journal Publications, Refereed National Journal Publications

PUBLICATIONS (1999 - 2007) Journal articles, Refereed conferences articles, Monographs, Editorships, Book chapters, Refereed workshop contributions

In this paper it is presented our contribution for carrying out adaptive and intelligent Web-based Education Systems (WBES) that take into account the individual student learning requirements, by means of a holistic architecture and Framework for developing WBES. In addition, three basic modules of the proposed WBES are outlined: an Authoring tool, a Semantic Web-based Evaluation, and a Cognitive Maps-based Student Model. As well, it is stated a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) oriented to deploy reusable, accessible, durable and interoperable services. The approach enhances the Learning Technology Standard Architecture, proposed by IEEE-LTSA (Learning Technology System Architecture) [IEEE 1484.1/D9 LTSA (2001). Draft standard for learning technology - learning technology systems architecture (LTSA). New York, USA. URL: http://ieee.ltsc.org/wg1], and the Sharable Content Object Reusable Model (SCORM), claimed by Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) [Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative (2004). URL: http://www.adlnet.org].

Designing the Semantic Web for Higher Education Technological and Socio-economical Challenges 2002 What is the Semantic Web all about? How do Use Cases of the Semantic Web look like and how can we realize them? What is missing from the socio-economicalpoint of view?

Second Brazilian Workshop on Semantic Web and Education Second Brazilian Workshop on Semantic Web and Education held in Fortaleza, Brazil, joint with the XIX Brazilian Symposium on Informatics and Education (SBIE) http://www.grow.ic.ufal.br/events/WSWEd2008.en

References to papers on the topic of the semantic web and education (Brazil).

Motivation Educational Systems are gradually incorporating Semantic Web technology. The general purpose is to make the Web more understandable by machines and then generate educational systems that are more adaptable and intelligent.

As JISC has recently announced an open call of funding for a study on Semantic Web technologies in teaching and learning we thought we'd use this opportunity to provide a bit of an update on Semantic Web developments. The JISC call seeks to fund a study which looks at pragmatic aspects of the actual use of semantic applications in real world scenarios. The successful applicant will review a number of case studies of real-world teaching and learning scenarios and look at the potential for use of semantic technologies. The key question they are asking is: "Can you convince us that semantic technologies offer one potential solution to some real problems?"