Alessandro Agnello ActiveMath - A Learning Platform With Semantic Web Features 1IWS2 Bits - Alessandro Agnello

What is Active Math? ActiveMath is an intelligent e-Learning platform that exhibits a number of Semantic Web features. Its content knowledge representation is a semantic XML dialect for mathematics, semantic search is enabled, some of its components work as a web service and, vice versa, it employs certain foreign web services, e.g., for diagnostic purposes. (1) 2 IWS 2 Bits - Alessandro Agnello

Fun Facts of Active Math One of the first educational systems to employ the semantic web. Client server application & additional web service features. The advanced features make it a Semantic Web. IWS2 Bits - Alessandro Agnello3

Basic Architecture of Active Math From the beginning it was a client server application. There is an event system that enables asynchronous communication between components including external systems. Most of the heavy lifting is on the server, while the client issues outs commands. PAIGOS is a system developed with around 300 rules for the students to follow when using Active Math. IWS2 Bits - Alessandro Agnello4

Communication of Active Math Communication is done via-http requests XML (Meta Data) is the primary protocol used. There is three main categories (General Administrative, Mathematical & Pedagogical) The search component uses direct Java calls to the content base and retrieves appropriate data. IWS2 Bits - Alessandro Agnello5

Future Work Incorporating a better implementation of fuzzy searching. Capability of reusing other learning material developed, originally developed by other learning environments. Capability of sending more detailed information to other learning systems. IWS2 Bits - Alessandro Agnello6