Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Achieve Personalization and Reuse of Content in Educational Adaptive Hypermedia Systems

Ontologies and metadata standards for the Web can be used to achieve personalization and reuse of content in Educational Adaptive Hypermedia Systems. Web Ontologies can represent the knowledge of the system concerning the educational content, the domain to be taught, and the learner’s profile enabling intelligent behavior in building personalized learning objects. Interoperability to reuse of content can be achieved by having the ontologies terminology based on pre-existing standard vocabularies. This paper describes how Semantic Web technologies were applied to the Adaptive Hypermedia System AdaptWeb.