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BONy is a technology-enhanced platform designed for collaborative learning and educational networking. Utilizing semantic technology, it supports user profiling, expert finding, and personalized learning paths. Developed within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme, BONy integrates various functionalities, including a Learning Content Management System and social networking features within a multilingual context. The platform aims to minimize adaptation costs, enhance content reusability, and connect learners with relevant knowledge resources, fostering a vibrant learning community.
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BONy: a knowledge centric collaborative learning platformsocial.bonynetwork.eu Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, ConcettoElvioBonafede and Aldo Gangemi STLAB - ISTC - CNR supported by the BONy project, financed by the Education and culture DG of the EU, grant agreement N 135263-2007-IT-KA3-KA3MP, under the Lifelong Learning Programme 2007 managed by EACEA.
What is BONy? • Technology enhanced platform for collaborative learning • Semantic technology for • System integration • DOKEOS: Learning Content Management System • Spree: social network • develop advanced functionalities • User Profiling • Expert Finding • Semantic Search • Mentoring: Generation of personalized learning paths • GOAL: make it work!
What is BONy? Project Cycle Management • Italian • Spanish • Polish • Greek • Catalan • France • German • English • Hungarian • Slovak • Czech UNITS Basic Concepts European project cycle European Project Management Methodology Legal aspects Exploitation
What is BONy? BONy Educational Social Network The BONy community Expert Finding Based on http://spree.dai-labor.de/
Principles • Re-usability: • when adapted to a new course, the OWL schema of the ontology is preserved • minimize the adaptation costs to new domains; • Modularity • Topic Ontology • User Ontology • eLearning Ontology • Best practices: • the ontology has been designed by specializing Ontology Design Patters (ODP)
Building the topic ontology • A domain expert manually selected relevant keywords for each English SCO • Looking for corresponding wikipedia pages and their categories • 54TOPICs • KW hasTopic TOPIC • Taxonomy is inspired by the wikipedia hierarchy • Keywords has been translated in all remaining languages
What is BONy? BONy Educational Social Network Ask for support / automatic Expert finding
Connecting Users and SCOs • eLearning Ontology: • Describes Shared Content Objects (SCO) • type of electronic support adopted • dependencies between learning objects • time required for learning • SCOhasTopicTOPIC • User Ontology: • Represents user profiles • AGENTknowsTopicTOPIC • 5 Levels of expertise • knowsBasic • … • knowsPerfect
Mentoring: personalized learning paths based on the user profile Implemented by SPARQL queries
Conclusion • Semantic technology has been used for • System integration • Advanced functionalities • BONy 3.0: Knowledge Centric Authoring tool • learning objects are generated from existing Linked Data • Using Ontology design patterns for aggregating Linked Data
BONy: a knowledge centric collaborative learning platformsocial.bonynetwork.eu Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, ConcettoElvioBonafede and Aldo Gangemi STLAB - ISTC - CNR supported by the BONy project, financed by the Education and culture DG of the EU, grant agreement N 135263-2007-IT-KA3-KA3MP, under the Lifelong Learning Programme 2007 managed by EACEA.
Inspiring Principles • re-usability: • when adapted to a new course, the OWL schema of the ontology is preserved • minimize the adaptation costs to new domains; • modularity: • three modules • eLearning content • social network • Topics • best practices: • the ontology has been designed by specializing Ontology Design Patters (ODP)
The Bony Ontology Ontology Design Patterns are used
The BONy ontology • Topic Ontology: • Represents topics covered by the eLearning course • TOPIC broader/narrower than TOPIC • eLearning Ontology: • Describes Shared Content Objects (SCO) • type of electronic support adopted • dependencies between learning objects • time required for learning • SCOhasTopicTOPIC • User Ontology: • Represents user profiles • AGENTknowsTopicTOPIC • 5 Levels of expertise • knowsBasic • … • knowsPerfect
Building the topic ontology • A domain expert manually selected relevant keywords for each English SCO • 46 SCO • Average 5 KWs/SCO • SCO hasKeyword KEYWORD • Find wikipedia pages for each keyword and corresponding wikipedia categories • 54 different TOPIC • KW hasTopic TOPIC • Taxonomy is inspired by the wikipedia hierarchy • Keywords are translated in different languages
What is BONy? User Profiles What is BONy? Registration
What is BONy? BONy Educational Social Network Ask for support / automatic Expert finding
What is BONy? BONy Educational Social Network Ask for support / automatic Expert finding Questions Experts Most Related Notebook Entries
What is BONy? • Italian • Spanish • Polish • Greek • Catalan • France • German • English • Hungarian • Slovak • Czech
TARGETED END-USERS E-learning & Mobility • Interfacesfor: • PC, Laptop, NetBook • http://social.bonynetwork.eu • PDA • http://mobile.bonynetwork.eu/
Mentoring: personalized learning paths based on the user profile Reasoner implemented by SPARQL query
Multilingual Search Technology: NLP, Lucene
Mentoring • Generation of personalized learning paths • Goal: recommending slides minimizing the • User profile is represented in the same topic space of learning objects • Sparql queries are used to select objects having different topics
BONy 3.0: project proposal • Knowledge Centric Authoring tool • Linked open data are the building blocks of learning objects • Ontology design patterns for aggregating linked data • Learning objects are dynamically rendered on a variety of media (web pages, PDA, speech) • Agent based services • Automatic generation of questionnaires • Agent assisted tutoring • Semantic social network (Partially in BONy) • From search to recommending • Personalized generation of learning paths (already in BONy) • Related learning objects • Semantic browsing of content