Linked Data in E-Learning: A Survey

The evolution of the Web to a place for semantic data integration and the development of Linked Data infrastructures offer new possibilities and promise better and more effective ways of interaction, adaption, data sharing and re-use of data between applications. E-Learning and Web-based education have become essential building blocks of education in general, delivering course material over the Internet anytime and anyplace into a matter of course. With the Semantic Web having a special impact on how we deal with seeking information online, it will also have a particular impact on the field of e-Learning. The outlook to being able to integrate shared learning resources augmented with meta-data, intelligent solutions to information searching and knowledge management shape the vision of an Educational Semantic Web. In this paper, we will give an overview of the aspects of the Semantic Web as well as possible effects and recent applications of Semantic Web technologies in Web-based educational environments.