A course offering is a collection of learning objects composed together based on a syllabus. Syllabi define the contents of the course, as well as other information such as resources and assignments. Currently, there is no standard format for representing syllabi that can facilitate automatic processing of syllabi contents for various applications. In this paper, we report on the current practi...

This paper describes the philosophy behind our tool called “Legal Taxonomy Syllabus”, the analytical instruments it provides and some case studies. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus is an ontology based tool designed to annotate and recover multi-lingua legal information and build conceptual dictionaries. The Legal Taxonomy Syllabus allows to build legal dictionaries in a bottom up fashion starting f...

Being aware of controversies and lack of evidence in peritoneal dialysis (PD) training, the Nursing Liaison Committee of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD) has undertaken a review of PD training programs around the world in order to develop a syllabus for PD training. This syllabus has been developed to help PD nurses train patients and caregivers based on a consensus of t...

With the significant growth in available electronic education materials such as syllabus documents and lecture notes on the Internet and intranets there is a need for developing efficient indexing/categorizing mechanisms to organize such E-documents in institutional repositories. In this paper we describe our approach for automatic classification of syllabus documents in the national Irish syll...

This study focuses on the theoretical references that have influenced Brazilian school health programs based on the Rio de Janeiro experience. It draws on Brazilian literature from the mid-20 century to date and international literature on the assessment of health promotion. Proposals for the domestication of student behavior using hygienist principles are analyzed, as well as some engaged in t...