Context Ontologies in Ubiquitous Learning Environments

A Proposed Ontology-Based Generic Context Model for Ubiquitous Learning

“…There are several techniques to model learners' context, however, what takes more value and is being positioned as a standard is the Ontology-Based Context Modeling (Ouf et al, 2017;Aguilar et al, 2018;González et al;. To develop our ontology, we are basing the development process on two methodologies: METHONTOLOGY (Fernández-López et al, 1997) and Noy and McGuiness's method (Noy & McGuinness, 2001).…”

“…Ubiquitous learning (u-learning) can be seen as a new paradigm regarding deliver adaptation of learning services for learners. It aims to provide learners with the appropriate information, at the appropriate time, in the appropriate way, using mobile devices, wireless connection, and sensor technology (González et al, 2016). One essential feature to realize this type of smart learning is context awareness.…”

“…One essential feature to realize this type of smart learning is context awareness. A context-aware system is able to collect characteristics of the environment that surround the learner and respond to different changes (González et al, 2016). There has been a growing research background about the topic of context modeling and several approaches have been proposed (Yin et al, 2015), out of which ontology seem to be the most successful and promising one, this is due to the fact that it construct expressive models that can manage the required context information and offer some basic reasoning mechanisms.…”

“…Another important purpose of ontology consists of providing a common understanding vocabulary for a specific field. For, it might be advantageous to have a generic ontology-based context model to unify contextual information in the learning environment, however, according to several studies (Economide, 2009;González et al, 2016;Ennouamani & Mahani, 2018;Yin et al, 2015), a large amount of works in the area of applying ontology within the e-learning field, address the personalization of learning objects based only on a subset of learners' context characteristics that is of interest in a particular learning scenario (Soualah-Alila et al, 2013;Naqvi et al, 2013;Salazar, 2014;Yin et al, 2015, Abech et al, 2016González, 2014;Popović et al, 2016;Sevkli et al, 2017;Gómez et al, 2016;Skoulikari et al 2015, Marcelo et al, 2016, Louhab et al, 2018, Aeiad & Meziane, 2018. As such, there is no proposal of a generic context model for the context-aware u-Learning.…”