10/07/2008 Semantic Web Technologies & Higher Education

George Siemens, COHERE Blended Learning Conference, 10/03/2008, presentation/ presentation/ Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Teaching, Learning, and Research Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Teaching, Learning, and Research

Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Teaching, Learning, and Research (Collaboration): Another perspective Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Teaching, Learning, and Research (Collaboration): Another perspective Terry Anderson, “Toward a Theory of Online Learning,” Athabasca University, Theory and Practice on Online Learning; e-book from ml ml

George Siemens, COHERE Blended Learning Conference, 10/03/2008, presentation/ presentation/ Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Trends in Online Education Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Trends in Online Education

Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed Teaching, Learning, & Social Networking: Projects Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed Teaching, Learning, & Social Networking: Projects Sakai + Blackboard ( or Moodle + Blackboard ( “Imagine a world where students go to a single URL and connect to their course regardless of which course management system it is hosted on. Dashboards consolidate information for users from these many systems. Administrators easily access accounts and information across these systems; thus simplifying helpdesk operations. The Learning Environment Connector makes this world possible.” John Fontaine, Blackboard’s senior director of engineering, in a company blog post last month (before Syracuse was announced as the partner institution). company blog post

Inigral ( & Course Feed ( Facebook-like apps combined with educational tools or course management software: “We think there is a lot of value, and universities are starting to realize this, in having students feel more connected to each other and to campus life,” Staton, founder and CEO of Inigral. Rather than compete with course management systems, some of which are also migrating onto Facebook or inspiring independently designed applications, Inigral is attempting to encompass the college experience as a whole.some of which are also migrating onto Facebookinspiring independently designed applications Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed Teaching, Learning, & Social Networking: Projects Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed Teaching, Learning, & Social Networking: Projects

My Net Research ( allowing collaborative research on a global scale: Modern Web 2.0 research portals allow researchers to collaborate on the site itself, manage actual documents and also network with colleagues and other potential researchers. It enables powerful web-based searches and the classification of results into personal taxonomies. The portal uses comprehensive knowledge classifications for categorizing users and their research interests and abilities, allowing researchers to find ideal research collaborators with accuracy. It employs forums, blogs, expert article postings, sophisticated project management and news feeds of the latest research news. In addition, it incorporates specialized research tools that academics use most often, such as survey creation/deployment tools, citation tools, bibliography management and many others. Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed Research: Projects

VIVO at Cornell University ( VIVO (not an acronym) brings together in one site publicly available information on the people, departments, graduate fields, facilities, and other resources that collectively make up the research and scholarship environment in all disciplines at Cornell. Search VIVO for information about faculty, departments and research units, undergraduate majors, graduate fields, courses, research services and facilities --- anything related to academic and research pursuits at Cornell. Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed Research: Projects

Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange: OAI-ORE ( Defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources, sometimes called compound digital objects. May combine distributed resources with multiple media types including text, images, data, and video. The goal is to expose the rich content in these aggregations to applications that support authoring, deposit, exchange, visualization, reuse, and preservation. Motivation: The changing nature of scholarship and scholarly communication and the need for cyber-infrastructure to support it; and to develop standards that generalize across all web-based information, including the increasingly popular social networks of web 2.0. Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Projects which Combine Teaching, Research, Social Networking, & Learning Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Projects which Combine Teaching, Research, Social Networking, & Learning

SIMILE ( Seeks to enhance interoperability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores. SIMILE will leverage and extend DSpace, enhancing its support for arbitrary schemata and metadata, primarily though the application of RDF and semantic web techniques.DSpace The project also aims to implement a digital asset dissemination architecture based upon web standards. The dissemination architecture will provide a mechanism to add useful "views" to a particular digital artifact (i.e. asset, schema, or metadata instance), and bind those views to consuming services. To guide the SIMILE effort we will focus on well-defined, real-world use cases in the libraries domain. Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Projects which Combine Teaching, Research, Social Networking, & Learning Semantic Web Uses in Higher Ed: Projects which Combine Teaching, Research, Social Networking, & Learning