Source: elearning-reviews
elearning-reviews is an impressive, well-organised printing-friendly web site, from the Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning. It "provides those interested in research on elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications".
This review by Tobias Bürgerof Vladan Devedžic's 2006 "Semantic Web and Education", does just that. Concluding paragraph:
"This book also shows that the marginal importance (compared with e. g. prior learning experiences) of “general” learning styles (as it was shown in research) is still not recognised in the world of artificial intelligence and computer science; they still deal with the idea of several cognitive styles and the possibilities for adaptation of e-learning materials. By the way: We were surprised that the different ways of reasoning seemed not to be important to Vladan Devedižic. Some could say that we should not be so harsh with our comments on this book, because it is one of the first longer publications on this topic (published 2006). Yes, we agree – but we would not have been as harsh, if there were not some very interesting older publications, where we find a deeper understanding of what learning and education is and could mean in the Semantic Web. Nevertheless, we will use this book and can recommend it as a standard work about education and the Semantic Web with the clear strength in an overview about relating technical concepts."
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