An Ontology-based Framework for Organizing Research Support Contents in E-Learning Environment

Transferring information in an organized and coordinated way is an effective factor in forming innovative mentality in learner. Content organization has a significant role on this mentality formation. The objective of content organization may be representing a description, analyzing a subject, presenting a justification, applying a reasoning style and consolidating a situation. The purpose of this study is to present a framework for organizing research support content, considering the projection of learner’s reasoning style, content processing perspective, and existing features of content, onto research abilities. Applying these different orthogonal aspects may bring about a precise research ability. In order to provide an efficient research support e-learning environment, it is necessary to enrich a traditional education system with research support services. Such an enriched environment affects mental/practical ability of researcher as well as accelerating research process through decreasing time, cost and energy.