SW-WL '03 Preface

SW-WL'03 is the first edition of the workshop " Semantic Web for Web-based learning. Implications in the area of educational information systems ». The emerging Semantic Web presents exciting new possibilities for uses of learning technology. The SW-WL'03 papers include papers that are primarily concerned with topics on applications of the Semantic Web technology for education. In section 1 (only abstract available), Dr. Martin WOLPERS from the Learning Lab Lower Saxony, as our invited speaker will present a talk entitled " Towards P2P-based information systems for E-learning using semantic web technologies ". His current research interests focus on peer-to-peer networks, information systems, semantic web, adaptive hypermedia systems and knowledge management. Furthermore he is the project manager of the international project "Personalized Access to Distributed Learning Repositories". Then, we split two main sections for the different papers. In section 2, three papers are discussing about models, concepts and ontology for the authoring process. In their paper " Process-aware Authoring of Web-based Educational Systems " Lora AROYO and Riichiro MIZOGUCHI discuss how current Semantic web concepts can be beneficial for the authoring support of Web-based educational systems (WBES). With a semantic perspective on the knowledge representation within such systems, they explore the interoperability between the various ontological structures for domain and instructional modeling and the modeling of the entire authoring process. They present design principle of the ontology-based framework for authoring support of WBES. Amel Bouzeghoub et al, " A model of reusable educational components for the generation of adaptative courses " , aim at providing an environment of authoring and presentation of pedagogical multimedia contents adapted to the end-user. This environment must increase the productivity of the teacher by supporting the re-use of contents already developed in other contexts (by him/her or others). This goal is achieved by means of a model of educational components. They define a set of con-structors used to build courses by assembly of components. The courses thus defined are then instantiated for each learner according to his/her profile. To classify component the approach use ontology to describe the domain model, where each node represents a domain concept. Stefan Hoermann et al., " Building Structures of Reusable Educational Content Based on LOM " , show that in a learning system LOM can be used to map the structure of courses. The necessary extension of the aggregation level is introduced. The description of the courses created with LOM …