An application of ontology in collaborative learning

Collaborative learning is a kind of group learning mode. It emphasizes the communication and collaboration among group members. Current collaborative learning systems haven´t reached a high intelligent degree, and some problems such as dynamic grouping have not been solved well. Dynamic grouping refers to the problem that how the members who are interested in the same subject conform a learning group dynamically. In order to solve this problem, this paper comes up with a method using ontology-OBDG (Ontology Based Dynamic Grouping) Method. This method can improve the intelligence of collaborative learning system, and experiment results show that it can solve the dynamic grouping problem.