Tuesday, 5/22/2007
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Level: Case Study

A process for developing learning plans and associating these learning plans with organizational goals is described. The process can be used by non-technical people but captures the relationships as RDF triples. Plans can be combined to create team and organizational learning plans. These combined plans can be mapped to an organization's knowledge map and various forms of gap analysis and knowledge clustering can be carried out. Possible ways to integrate these maps with social bookmarking systems are also discussed and possible relationships between social bookmarking and folksonomy and knowledge mapping are explored

• Why map learning plans?
• A process for building learning plans as semantic maps
• Aggregating learning plans
• Advantages and disadvantages of this approach
• Adding social bookmarking and folksonomies

This presentation shows a practical applicaiton of semantic web technologies to learning and more importantly how two different ontologies (learning and organizational goals) can be integrated in a way that is compelling for the organization.

Steven Forth is CTO of eMonitor, the business unit at the Monitor Group responsible for delivering Monitor’s value proposition on-line. In addition to his work at Monitor he is the chair of the Web Services in Learning (WSIL), an informal group that is working on approaches to introducing extended services oriented architectures to the converging learning, performance and knowledge management industries. He is a founder and director of the social software company CrowdTrust and of the digital signature company Recombo.

Neil Davies has been with the Monitor Group for 6 years and currently leads the technical development at eMonitor. His role includes researching semantic web technologies and how these can be used as part of Monitor's value proposition. He has a keen interest in social bookmarking and how it can be used to assist in learning. Out of the office, Neil is keen badminton player and is nationally ranked in US.

Kaite Wong is QA Manager of eMonitor and leads the Quality Assurance efforts. She is responsible for ensuring QA is injected early and often into each step of the development process and works closely with Sales & Marketing, Product Management, Project Management, Usability, and Technical Development teams. Kaite is interested in semantics and how semantics can improve quality assurance.