Semantic Blog Based Supportive Learning System

• Published in: 2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E) pp. 212 - 215
• Main Authors: S., Godfrey Winster, S., Swamynathan
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2012
• Subjects: blog; Blogs; Communities; community; Educational institutions; Learning systems; mind map; Ontologies; ontology; Operating systems; Semantics; social learning
• DOI: 10.1109/T4E.2012.40
• ISBN: 9781467321730; 1467321737

Social networking plays a vital role in todays web. Users of the social network chat, discuss, entertain and watch personal contents in their favorite sites. Most of the users who use the social network are learners and they are very high in numbers. So, it will be an added advantage for the learners to learn from large community where the pool of content is available for learning. The content is available as a blog. Blogs are available in plenty. It becomes a tedious task for the learner to search and find the required content from the large collection of blogs. This work proposes a novel idea to use the social network for creation of blog content for group learning. It uses ontology for a specific subject to relate one blog with another blog. Blog posted for a particular title is related to the blogs of the same blogger or another blogger and it should be linked to the relevant blog. Blogger can also call for online discussion on a posted article which gives the clear picture about the understanding of the topic. Over and above the traditional learning system, a semantic blog based supportive learning system is introduced in this paper. The system yield high result if the user accepts the new learning method. High percentage of interest shown to discuss the topic and easy access and the availability of content is the added advantage.