Semantic Learning Webs

Abstract

Abstract: 'By 2020, microprocessors will likely be as cheap and plentiful as scrap paper, scattered by the millions into the environment, allowing us to place intelligent systems everywhere. This will change everything around us, including the nature of commerce, the wealth of nations, and the way we communicate, work, play, and live. This will give us smart homes, cars, TVs, jewellery, and money. We will speak to our appliances, and they will speak back. Scientists also expect the Internet will wire up the entire planet and evolve into a membrane consisting of millions of computer networks, creating an "intelligent planet." The Internet will eventually become a "Magic Mirror" that appears in fairy tales, able to speak with the wisdom of the human race.' Michio Kaku, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century, 1998 'If the semantic web needed a symbol, a good one to use would be a Navaho dream-catcher: a small web, lovingly hand-crafted, [easy] to look at, and rumored to catch dreams; but really more of a symbol than a reality.' Pat Hayes, Catching the Dreams, 2002 Invited Commentary: Sims, R. (2004) Commentary on: Stutt, A. and Motta, E. (2004). Semantic Learning Webs Editors: Terry Anderson and Denise Whitelock.

Keywords

• semantic web
• web technologies
• innovation
• research
• effects of technology on education
• challenges
• information literacy
• distance education
• teaching