Knowledge engineering approach for constructing ontology for e-Learning services

Recent ongoing enhancement in web is providing Semantic Web based services a more significance. Ontologies are important technology for representing knowledge base and implementing Semantic web. Notion of pedagogy and learning has been recently changed from traditional instructor centric teaching-learning process to web based learner centric teaching-learning process. E-Learning is supported by various resources available over Internet such as on-line courses, lecture notes, slides, and webinars etc. Representing these resources using Meta data model and integrating and reusing these resources in order to provide Semantic web based e-Learning services is a challenging process. This paper outlines the knowledge engineering approach for constructing semantics for e-Learning domain entities using Web Ontology Language OWL. It also focuses on integration and reasoning out of these entities using intelligent agents in providing Semantic Web based e-Learning services.