Improving Collaborative Learning Processes by Using Structured Information

Abstract: It is possible to notice an increasing interest in educational contexts to use a collaborative approach to learning where students are able to interact and share information developing team competences. Furthermore, there is a huge amount of information available on the Web, which could be reused to support learning. But to take full advantage of this potential it is important to have mechanisms supporting semantic interoperability. However, it is difficult to integrate and share information that was developed using different vocabularies and different perspectives. This paper is a contribution to solve this problem and aims at exploring the benefits of using structured information in a collaborative learning approach. In order to structure information it is proposed the use of RDF. An example of providing semantic interoperability according to the proposed approach is presented.