Developing Domain Ontologies for Course Content

Ontologies have the potential to play an important role in instructional design and the development of course content. They can be used to represent knowledge about content, supporting instructors in creating content or learners in accessing content in a knowledge-guided way. While ontologies exist...

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Published inEducational technology & society Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 275 - 288
Main Authors Boyce, Sinead, Pahl, Claus
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Palmerston North International Forum of Educational Technology & Society 01.01.2007
Subjects
Basic Skills
Biochemistry
Case Studies
Classification
Conceptual hierarchies
Copyrights
Course Content
Data models
Domain ontologies
Domains
Educational Technology
Engineering
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Influence of Technology
Instructional Design
Knowledge engineering
Knowledge Level
Knowledge management
Knowledge Representation
Modeling
Ontology
Philosophical subject
Semantic web
Semantics
Taxonomy
Teachers
Vertical Organization
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Summary:Ontologies have the potential to play an important role in instructional design and the development of course content. They can be used to represent knowledge about content, supporting instructors in creating content or learners in accessing content in a knowledge-guided way. While ontologies exist for many subject domains, their quality and suitability for the educational context might be unclear. For numerous subjects, ontologies do not exist. We present a method for domain experts rather than ontology engineers to develop ontologies for use in the delivery of courseware content. We will focus in particular on relationship types that allow us to model rich domains adequately.
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ISSN:1176-3647
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