Semantic Web and e-Learning: A pedagogical ontology of an e-learning platform

From its initial preoccupations : learning content layout and management, e-learning now concerns the whole process of knowledge transmission between distant people, e.g. taught resources and dependencies between them need to be described, educational activities must be planned, learners must be modelled and acquired knowledge must be qualified and quantified. Normalization institutes now provide sets of metadata that help these modelings. Using such standardized metadata as ground terms for an ontology of e-learning, we propose to enhance the capabilities of an existing e-learning platform, translating tasks in educational engineering, content management and learner tracking into inferences on the ontology.