Context Aware E-Learning using Ontology Framework

In web-based e-learning environment every learner has a distinct background, learning style and a specific goal when searching for learning material on the web. The goal of personalization is to tailor search results to a particular user based on that user’s contextual information. The effectiveness of accessing learning material involves two important challenges: identifying the user context and modeling the user context as ontological profiles. This work describes the ontology-based framework for contextaware adaptive learning system, with detailed discussions on the categorization contextual information and modeling along with the use of ontology to explicitly specify learner context in an elearning environment. Finally we conclude by showing the applicability of the proposed ontology with appropriate architectural overview of e-learning system .