An Ontological Approach for Semantic Modeling of Learning Pathways

The improvement in quality of services offered by educational institutions is one of the main challenges of the modern education informatics. The personalization of educational process requires adaptive learning schemes since the student status and conditions inside an institution constantly change. In this paper, we present the EDUC8 (EDUCATE) system, which aims at providing a new approach concerning real-time personalization and adaptation of learning business processes. The EDUC8 system consists of a learning process execution engine supported by a semantic framework, which is based on an ontology enclosing the knowledge and the information and provides decisions and recommendations for the next steps of the learning process. Furthermore, the results of the rule-set execution may produce new objects that will be inserted in the ontology as new knowledge.