Abstract-The recent advances in web-based educational technology, is providing diverse needs of e-learner and revolutionized the process of learning. However, how to enrich the student's understandability and stimulate the learning behavior towards cognitive learning beyond simple lookup is still remaining as open research issue. To facilitate the effective learning process the technology has numerous ways of providing pedagogical assistance. The course content description based on the dimensions of psychological factors and Bloom's taxonomy can help in presenting course material so as to reduce cognitive load and to influence the effective learning style. This paper examines various cognitive strategies and resource description metadata in a course-based learning environment. Finally, the researcher proposed an ontology-based metadata for modeling the course contents of web-based learning environment that supports cognitive prerequisites of the learner.
Keywords-Cognitive
IntroductionMost of the existing research is concentrated on how to build better educational resources, how to deliver the contents as per the preferences and context of the learner. But the mechanism to improve the understanding level and cognitive skills of learner remains as open issue. The content delivery mechanism as per the cognitive needs of learner is currently the focus of research in the educational domain. The cognitive behavioral theory (CBT) can be considered as an important theoretical orientation to understand the student's behavior in web-based learning environments. To learn new concepts it is heavily depending on what the student already knew and his learning behavior.In an intelligent tutoring system, the conceptual representation of course contents will support the teaching of specific domain knowledge and it will be easier for the student to select an appropriate material [1]. "It is ambivalent to make the learner ambulate among learning concepts with one perspective [2]", but it is the willingness of the learner to navigate based on his skills and learning style. The recent web-based developments have led to reconsider the learning style research in adaptive e-learning systems [3], so as to improve the thinking skills of learner. The effective learning strategies and knowledge acquisition process are the mental activities that require the learner's ability and experience, which consists of mainly three activities such as Understanding, Applying, and Analyzing. In technology enhanced learning the integration of pedagogical strategies in an adaptive educational system leads to positive effects on the learning process and performance of the student. The Pedagogical learning activities and assessment process make the student in becoming independent and responsible for their own learning. The main requirement of providing comprehensive support to students learning experience is: the description of learning resources with pedagogical support and cognitive oriented metadata.The proposed work in this paper provides an expected ...