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TM4L: Creating and browsing educational topic maps
Darina Dicheva 1 and Christo Dichev 2
  1 Paul Fulton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Winston-Salem State University, USA
  2 Associate Professor of Computer Science at Winston-Salem State University, USA
Correspondence to  Darina Dicheva, Winston-Salem State University, Computer Science Department, Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Winston Salem, NC 27110, USA. Email: dichevad@wssu.edu; dichevc@wssu.edu
Copyright © 2006 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2006 British Educational Communications and Technology Agency

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AbstractIntroductionA framework for TM-based learning repositoriesTM4LThe TM4L EditorReferences

In this article, we describe TM4L, an environment for building, maintaining and using standards-based, ontology-aware e-learning repositories. It is based on the idea that concept-driven access to learning material implemented as a topic map can bridge the gap between a learner and targeted knowledge. One of the driving goals of this work is to increase the reusability of available educational resources by enabling the use of a developed subject ontology with courses on the same subject with different stricture. Another goal of TM4L is to support an efficient context-based retrieval of learning content tailored to the needs of a learner working on an educational task. The paper focuses on three aspects of the TM4L environment: domain modelling, editing capabilities and the interface for exploring the learning collection. The key features of the TM4L functionality are illustrated with some examples.


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