Creating and improving educational materials: an approach based on crowdsourcing

One way of increasing the quantity and quality of educational materials that are available on-line is to apply collaborative and crowdsourcing techniques during the production process. The idea of involving groups of learners working together to solve a problem, to complete a task, or to create a product is an educational approach to teach and learn called Collaborative Learning (CL). One way of applying the CL approach is by using a collaborative authoring platform such as SlideWiki. This paper presents a crowdsourced-based approach for involving students in the creation and improvement of educational materials using the SlideWiki platform

Using Prolog as the Fundament for Applications on the Semantic Web

This article describes the experiences developing a Semantic Web application entirely in Prolog. The application, a demonstrator that provides access to multiple art collections and linking these using cultural heritage vocabularies, has won the first price