Semantic Web support for personal work and learning environment

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Published: Aug 31, 2012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17471/2499-4324/132
Keywords:
Educational Technology, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), Semantic Web and Learning, Semantic Web, Collective Knowledge, Personal Work and Learning Environment (PWLE), Organizational Learning,

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Giuseppina Rita Mangione
Centro di Ricerca di Matematica Pura e Applicata, Università di Salerno, Salerno
Francesco Orciuoli
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e Ingegneria Informatica (DIEII), Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno
Saverio Salerno
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e Ingegneria Informatica (DIEII), Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno

Abstract

The ARISTOTELE European project investigates the concept of the Personal Work and Learning Environment (PWLE), an approach allowing workers, seen as “lifelong learners”, to benefit from - and contribute to - collective knowledge within their organization. The PWLE is a personal digital environment assisting workers in their knowledge cycle. Specifically, the PWLE makes it easy to transform workers’ tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge, and helps them contribute to collective knowledge that they can exploit for learning and work purposes. By facilitating the modeling, representation and accumulation of collective knowledge, Semantic Web technologies sustain PWLE processes in support of continuous learning in enterprises.

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Vol. 20 No. 2 (2012): TD56 - Dossier - Semantic Web and Learning
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Francesco Orciuoli, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e Ingegneria Informatica (DIEII), Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica e Ingegneria Informatica (DIEII)

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