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Nowadays, Semantic web and ontology applications which came with it, are commonly used in social media, entertainment and shopping sites. But usage of semantic web in education field is limited. Semantic web applications are useful developing tools and ELearning objects can be used for creation and editing. It is important that Individuals on the internet arrange educational techniques based on their interests and needs (Stutt & Motta 2004). Thus, it is envisaged that, semantic web applications will have large contribution conception when moving to individualized education in future education. The aim of this study is to create concept maps for educators, which is one of the significant learning techniques and widely applied in the teaching process, by using ontologies. In accordance to this aim, an ontology based system made with “Protégé 4.3” developing tool based on RDF(Resource Description Framework) language and can be queried in E-Learning environment by using ontology query language SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language). Moreover, the developed system is able to present concepts visually to educators, which could not be done by concept maps generated with classic methods and ensured to access textual information. Therefore, students are able to perform better relations between former and recently learned concepts and achieve constructive learning easier. In future studies, ontology based concept maps which is only used as learning material in education phases, are expected to be used more effectively also in planning, learning and evaluation stages.

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