Title :
An Ontology-Based Development Framework for Edutainments
Author :
Ling, Yun ; Gu, Huamao ; Wang, Xun
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Zhejiang Gongshang Univ., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
Although there are many edutainments in market yet, they are still not popular among school teaching due to the game developerspsila lack of teaching experience. This paper proposed a concept of ldquomade by teacherrdquo in game development, and presented an ontology-based edutainment development framework (OEDF) that assists teachers to design easily educational games at their wills. In OEDF, Ontology is employed to structure the sharable knowledge of game industries and the knowledge in textbooks. Moreover, this framework has been implemented in ParaEngine, a simple yet comprehensive and distributed 3D online game engine. Besides, the developing procedure for educational game under the OEDF framework is also provided. At the same time, a segment of an educational game has been developed based on the OEDF framework.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; computer games; ontologies (artificial intelligence); teaching; distributed 3D online game engine; educational game; game developer; ontology-based edutainment development framework; school teaching; Appraisal; Education; Educational institutions; Engines; Information management; Knowledge representation; Layout; OWL; Ontologies; Seminars; Edutainment; OWL; Ontology;
Conference_Titel :
Business and Information Management, 2008. ISBIM '08. International Seminar on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3560-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISBIM.2008.39
