Ontology-Enhanced Educational Annotation Activities

Joaquín Gayoso-Cabada, María Goicoechea- de-Jorge, Mercedes Gómez-Albarrán, Amelia Sanz-Cabrerizo, Antonio Sarasa-Cabezuelo and José-Luis Sierra
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Joaquín Gayoso-Cabada: Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
María Goicoechea- de-Jorge: Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Mercedes Gómez-Albarrán: Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Amelia Sanz-Cabrerizo: Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Antonio Sarasa-Cabezuelo: Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
José-Luis Sierra: Facultad de Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 16, 1-22

Abstract: Information and communications technology and technology-enhanced learning have unquestionably transformed traditional teaching–learning processes and are positioned as key factors to promote quality education, one of the basic sustainable development goals of the 2030 agenda. Document annotation, which was traditionally carried out with pencil and paper and currently benefits from digital document annotation tools, is a representative example of this transformation. Using document annotation tools, students can enrich the documents with annotations that highlight the most relevant aspects of these documents. As the conceptual complexity of the learning domain increases, the annotation of the documents may require comprehensive domain knowledge and an expert analysis capability that students usually lack. Consequently, a proliferation of irrelevant, incorrect, and/or poorly decontextualized annotations may appear, while other relevant aspects are completely ignored by the students. The main hypothesis proposed by this paper is that the use of a guiding annotation ontology in the annotation activities is a keystone aspect to alleviate these shortcomings. Consequently, comprehension is improved, exhaustive content analysis is promoted, and meta-reflective thinking is developed. To test this hypothesis, we describe our own annotation tool, @ note , which fully implements this ontology-enhanced annotation paradigm, and we provide experimental evidence about how @ note can improve academic performance via a pilot study concerning critical literary annotation.

Keywords: educational annotation tool; ontology; critical literary annotation; cooperative/collaborative learning; interactive learning environments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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