Nowadays, Intelligent Learning Systems are spreading rapidly in educational institutions as well as in the public and the private sector. It takes a variety of forms: MOOCs, Serious Games, Online Labs, Personal Learning Environments, Social Learning Networks, and more. In these various digital learning environments, it is important to ensure the quality of learning by improving the pedagogical
... [Show full abstract] engineering practices and satisfying the new learning needs of the digital age. For this purpose, recent guidance and recommendations urge to build the intelligent learning systems on the basis of the Web 3.0 framework. Since, the latter provides an analytical framework, intelligent agents as well as powerful tools to analyse the students’ activities which can be very helpful to improve the learning outcomes. This framework can understand how learning occurs or develops in networks and how learners create meaning and construct knowledge when connecting with others. The ability of the Web 3.0 resides on the precise classification of the information, where it is stored in a way that the computer can understand and analyse accurately its meaning. We have studied the literature related to artificial intelligence, connected learning theory, social semantic web and ontologies, data mining and learning analytics approaches to extract and draw conclusions about the necessary features for developing the future intelligent learning systems. We found that, in order to fulfil the learning and pedagogical requirements of the new generation of students, it is necessary to develop a system that: 1) Integrates data analytics methods and tools into the design of the environments; 2) Exploits the massive data generated by the users in order to personalize the learning of each learner based on his/her preferences; 3) Integrates ontologies and semantic web tools to ensure resources sharing and intelligence implication; 4) Develops tools for the processing and analysis of data in natural language, in particular, to correct written questions or answers; 5) Develops a course design methodology that integrates the principles of Web 3.0-based pedagogy. We argue that the use of artificial intelligence and data mining tools provides a better understanding of the learning process itself, especially the semantic analytics of the learning process, which represents the hottest trend in the development of recent Intelligent Learning Systems. It can be used for viewing, studying and analysing the massive data generated by learners, which helps them to understand through recommendations, charts and visualizations their learning and behaviour and to give teachers feedback to examine students’ learning and activities, to identify students in need, to determine repeated mistakes and to improve the effectiveness of the learning activities. We can say that Web 3.0 is a modern technology that helps to develop and enhance the learning process. It provides a meaningful opportunity to support its users regarding time, effort and costs by combining the social semantic web and artificial intelligence. Despite the technical evolution of Web 3.0, teachers and students should keep up with its tools, since both of them will have great advantages. On the one hand, learners will benefit from a highly personalised learning environment, adapted to their needs in real time and capable of detecting their deficits. On the other hand, teachers will have all the means to evaluate and monitor the quality of the learning sequences. They can understand the problem’s origin and provide quick responses, etc. We believe that the Web 3.0 will be employed in future learning systems beyond expectations and will contribute to a qualitative leap of pedagogy and learning.