ONTOLOGY-BASED USER MODELING AND E-PORTFOLIO GRID LEARNING SERVICES

Several challenges need to be met by a new generation of learning services. On one hand, they need to fit into a ubiquitous and serendipitous learning vision, to adapt to different types of users with different backgrounds and needs. On the other hand, they need to integrate modern pedagogical approaches of learning. These services will probably rely on the cooperation of different distributed, autonomous, goal-oriented entities, and they can be Grid- or Web-Oriented. In this paper, we show how core technologies can contribute to the development of a next generation of learning services. In particular, we focus our attention on personalized services delivery for learning by employing an ontological perspective and user modeling techniques. This paper presents some preliminary results obtained within Elegi FP6 project.