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E-learning plays vital role in education and its importance is constantly increasing. The key challenge in the teaching learning process of e-learning is assessing the students’ learning. Learning means the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, practice, or study, or by being taught. Assessing the students learning on the topics being taught is very important in e-learning environment. Based on the student’s learning, the system can change / update the pedagogy, recommendations can be made for further study, and the students’ performance can be evaluated. Many e-learning systems assess student learning by conducting tests, quizzes or assignments. In this paper, we propose concept map based on assessment from students’ learning using ontology mapping. Concept map is an effective tool for determining what a student knows in the topic covered. The concept map created by the student is converted into ontology and is then mapped with the reference ontology created by the expert. The experimental evaluation is presented and discussed.
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Kumaran, V.S., Sankar, A. (2013). An Automated Assessment of Students’ Learning in e-Learning Using Concept Map and Ontology Mapping. In: Wang, JF., Lau, R. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2013. ICWL 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8167. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41175-5_28
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