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Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies - CompSysTech '12

DOI: 10.1145/2383276.2383332

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Ontological Presentation of Analysis Method for Technology-enhanced Learning

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The new strategies for technology-enhanced learning point to the investigation and deployment of workable learning methods for creative thinking and learning-by-authoring, engaging learners in active participation while acquiring knowledge. In the SINUS project "Semantic Technologies for Web Services and Technology Enhanced Learning", a scenario for performing a learning analysis of the Orthodox iconographic art is proposed. The analysis will be completed in a learning environment using resources of the Bulgarian Iconographical Digital Library. For that purpose, an ontological structure of the learning method "Analysis" is developed. It is used in conjunction with a set of Web Services for providing knowledge and assisting the user to creatively exploit library's resources. This paper presents this ontological model and its usage. INTRODUCTION The main activities for studying Fine Arts (including Orthodox iconographic art) are research and analysis of the domain, which aims to find the main trends in the development of the domain, directions and dynamics of that development, factors and conditions that influenced the changes, the degree and strength of the influence and direction of the changes, new trends and so on. During the learning process, the iconography teachers define specific tasks such as an artistic analysis of the development of iconographical objects and scenes in the different iconographical schools through time, tracing the iconographical technology development in different iconographical schools and time periods, a technological analysis of a piece of art (base, primer, painting layer, polish, etc.), tracing the current condition and the restoration manipulations, exploring the donor and author signatures, tracing the authentication of an object, and analysis of the religious meaning of an iconographical image as the object of research. Aiding these activities using various software components and allowing access to digital warehouses/libraries, containing artefacts and collections for the learners, creates new incentives and significantly supports the process of analyzing and studying arts. Learning is enhanced through investigation and deployment of new workable learning methods and scenarios not only for learning but also for creative thinking, engaging users in more active participation during the perceiving of knowledge, learning-by-observing and learning-by-authoring. At present, in the frames of the SINUS project "Semantic Technologies for Web Services and Technology Enhanced Learning", a learning analysis of the Orthodox iconographic art is proposed to be performed in technology-enhanced learning environment using the objects and resources of the Bulgarian Iconographical Digital Library (http://bidl.math.bas.bg). A formal use case scenario of this activity is created [2] [6]. An ontological model of the learning method "Analysis" is developed for the implementation of the SINUS learning analysis service. This paper aims to present this ontological model and its usage in detail. Section 2 discusses the SINUS scenario and one of its use cases, demonstrating the analysis learning method. Section 3 discusses the concept of a "learning method" and its components and classifications.