Integrated Development Frameworks Based on Linked Data for Web- Based Interactive Educational Materials

This paper treats one of the activities of ICER (Innovation Centre for Educational Resources) in Kyushu University Library of Kyushu University, Japan. It is the development of attractive educational materials using recent ICT (Information Communication Technologies) like 3D CG (Computer Graphics) and VR (Virtual Reality) for enhancing the educational efficiency in the university. The authors have already proposed a framework dedicated for the development of web-based interactive 3D educational materials. Firstly, this paper introduces this development framework and its educational material example of Japanese history education. For developing attractive educational materials, such materials need multimedia contents like images and videos related to the teaching target. If the multimedia contents can be retrieved from the Internet, the development cost can be reduced. To do so, the authors focused on Linked Data and have already proposed an authoring tool of educational materials based on Linked Data. Furthermore, the authors integrated the authoring tool into the development framework. Secondly, this paper introduces the integrated development framework based on Lined Data and its educational materials of two teaching targets, i.e., IoT security education and Japanese history education. Furthermore, the authors have proposed another educational material development framework that supports 360VR images/videos and integrated the authoring tool with it. Finally, this paper introduces this integrated development framework based on Linked Data and its example educational material for IoT security education. Integrated Development Frameworks Based on Linked Data for WebBased Interactive Educational Materials Publication History: Received: December 03, 2020 Accepted: December 28, 2020 Published: December 30, 2020