An ontology based modeling framework for design of educational technologies

Abstract

Despite rapid progress, most of the educational technologies today lack a strong instructional design knowledge basis leading to questionable quality of instruction. In addition, a major challenge is to customize these educational technologies for a wide range of customizable instructional designs. Ontologies are one of the pertinent mechanisms to represent instructional design in the literature. However, existing approaches do not support modeling of flexible instructional designs. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose an ontology based framework for systematic modeling of different aspects of instructional design knowledge based on domain patterns. As part of the framework, we present ontologies for modeling goals, instructional processes and instructional material. We demonstrate the ontology framework by presenting instances of the ontology for the large scale case study of adult literacy in India (287 million learners spread across 22 Indian Languages), which requires creation of hundreds of similar but varied eLearning Systems based on flexible instructional designs. The implemented framework is available at http://rice.iiit.ac.in and is transferred to National Literacy Mission Authority of Government of India. The proposed framework could be potentially used for modeling instructional design knowledge for school education, vocational skills and beyond.

EduCOR: An Educational and Career-Oriented Recommendation Ontology

“…Furthermore, our ontology is aligned with FAIR principles [37]. Our data are assigned globally unique and persistent identifiers, and they are described with rich metadata, which is accessible and retrievable as it is demonstrated in the ontology page 7 . We use OWL for the ontology representation, and we reuse vocabularies that follow FAIR principles and include references to them.…”

“…However, they offer no personalised content capabilities. Recently Chimalakonda and Nori [7] suggested "an ontology based modelling framework for design of educational technologies". Similar to their model, we include context and domain-specific ontology to our design and add the "GoalsOntology" as 'Learning Goal' in our system.…”

Pendekatan Baru untuk Merepresentasi Informasi di Bidang Pendidikan Menggunakan Kombinasi Ontologi

“…Saat ini ontologi sudah banyak digunakan untuk menyimpan informasi di berbagai bidang misalkan cyber security [6], kesehatan [7], pendidikan [8] dan lain sebagainya. Penelitian-penelitian terkait penggunaan ontologi pada bidang pendidikan diantaranya adalah penggunaan ontologi untuk identifikasi kemampuan siswa sebagai penunjang proses adaptive learning system (ALS) [9], penggunaan ontologi untuk sistem tanya jawab [10], penggunaan ontologi untuk mendesain sistem pendidikan [11], penggunaan ontologi untuk membentuk relasi informasi dari sebuah materi pembelajaran [12], dan penggunaan ontologi untuk membangkitkan pertanyaan [13] [14].…”

Ontology Construction of Online Education

“…Recent studies developed specific ontology on educations. For example, an ontology-based framework is proposed to model goals, instructional processes and instructional material of the eLearning system [4]. University ontology defined educational activities and resources with classes, instances and retrieval methods [5].…”