Interactive Learning Environments has released a special issue of their publication entitled, “Semantic Technologies for Multimedia Enhanced Learning Environments.” The publicly available journal brings together five papers that analyze “how semantic technologies can be leveraged to address some of the… challenges of multimedia-rich learning environments.”

The referred to challenges are explained as such: “While today user-created multimedia content is a commodity in learning environments, we need to have pedagogical strategies to show how to make the best use of the available technologies… Just as we can expect learners to easily create and publish multimedia content, we should also facilitate interaction between learners, their peers and educators through multimodal channels of communication.”

Articles featured in the issue include “Ontology-based semantic relatedness for detecting the relevance of learning resources,” “Semantic annotation of video fragments as learning objects: a case study with YouTube videos and the Gene Ontology,” and “Automatic generation of tests from domain and multimedia ontologies.”

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