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The great success and demand of software tools in education have generated new challenges to improve the functionality and to reduce the limitations of time and availability of bandwidth to process the information. There are a lot of efforts to use distributed technologies in education, in particular Grid computing. The Learning Grid is based on a secure, flexible and coordinated form of sharing network resources which are dynamically collected by individuals and institutions, and establishing mechanisms for the correct exchange of information and a strict control of the resources to share. Learning services are fundamental components of learning Grid representing functionalities that can be easily reused without knowing the details of how services have been implemented. Semantic modeling of web services promises to automate tasks such as discovery, matching, composition and invocation of services. The objective of this chapter is to present an overview of a work related with the analysis, design and implementation of semantic models for the description of learning services and their incorporation inside Collaborative Learning Scenarios based on Grid technologies.
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Gutiérrez-Carreón, G., Jorba, J. (2009). A Semantic Description Model for the Development and Evaluation of Grid-Based, Innovative, Ubiquous and Pervasive Collaborative Learning Scenarios. In: Daradoumis, T., Caballé, S., Marquès, J.M., Xhafa, F. (eds) Intelligent Collaborative e-Learning Systems and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04001-6_11
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