SELBO

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SELBO

• SCORM Editor for eLearning Based on Ontologies
• Part of eLSE project

Damyan Mitev University of Plovdiv Paisii
Hilendarski
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What is SELBO

• SELBO is an editor, specialized in creating
  eLearning content.
• SELBO generates SCORM 2004 compliant HTML
  content.
• SELBO uses ontologies (via the core API of
  Protégé) to help content creators in designing
  their electronic lessons.
• SELBO integrates JADE agents to help content
  developers.

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Design goals

• Generation of standard eLessons.
• Easy to use by non-professionals in computer
  science.
• The user works with the terms in his domain of
  occupation and doesnt have to have any knowledge
  of SCORM or HTML.

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Standards used in SELBO

• SCORM
• Protégé ontologies
• HTML and JavaScript (Ekit Library)
• JADE Agents

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Why SCORM

• SCORM is international standard for eLearning.
• It not only standartizes the means of generating,
  packaging and playing the eLesson, but also has a
  means for defining sequencing and navigation of
  the content on per-student basis.

LMS 1
SELBO
SCORM Package
LMS 2
SCORM
LMS 3
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Why ontologies

• An ontology is a knowledge base.
• It gives the content developer premade
  definitions of concepts in given domain.
• Content developer works with the terms of the
  ontology, isolated from the internal
  representation of these terms.

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Why HTML

• HTML is a mature standard for visualization of
  multimedia content.
• HTML pages can be visualized with any modern
  browser no need for special third party client
  applications.
• If desired, it is possible some part of a page to
  be generated by third party HTML editor.

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Why Agents

• An agent is a intelligent piece of software.
• It can track content developers actions, guess
  his intentions and offer assistance.
• An Agent may search for a given concept in the
  ontology on behalf of the developer.
• It may even communicate with other agents to
  gather extra resources on the topic of the
  eLesson.

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SELBO Architecture
SELBO
Protégé
Ekit
SCORM SN
JADE
SCORM Generator
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Demonstration
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Future Plans

• Utilization of higher level of SN templates and
  scenarios with explicitly defined semantics
• Adding of new agents with
• dialog based interaction with the user
• goal driven behaviours, that follows the goal of
  the selected template
• Enhancing the multimedia support
• Test creation module
• Integration with the S-Bahn Tool

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Thank You
Any questions?