Ontologies in education – state of the art

Stančin, Kristian; Poščić, Patrizia; Jakšić, Danijela

doi:10.1007/s10639-020-10226-z

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“…Ontologies have been defined and used by different with various meanings but all for similar purposes [for a recent terminological definition of the term, see Stancin et al (2020)]. At its essence, an ontology can be regarded as a taxonomy organizing concepts in a specific domain or collection of domains and relations between them (denoted T-Box).…”

Section: Background: Ontologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ontologies are efficient means for integrating, structuring, and sharing knowledge because the common good practice of ontology engineering hinges on reusing and integrating existing ontologies (Stancin et al, 2020). This means that whenever a new ontology representing a knowledge domain is needed, the ontology engineers need to check all existing ontologies that contain entities needed for the new ontology or overlap with parts of the ontology.…”

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“…Ontologies have been successfully applied in different domains either as a stand-alone standardization effort or as part of semantic web applications, such as education [e.g., Stancin et al (2020)], behavior [e.g., Blanch et al (2017)], behavior change [e.g., Norris et al (2019)], affective research [e.g., Abaalkhail et al (2018)], and healthcare [e.g., Dimitrieski et al (2016)]. Ontologies provide structured annotations to diverse and seemingly non-compatible data and enable the analysis of raw data in an automated way while still being flexible to accommodate different theories and compare different findings.…”

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“…An overview of existing ontologies related to education can be found in Stancin et al (2020). Ontologies about education can be categorized into four main categories: curriculum modeling and management, describing learning domains, describing e-learning services, and describing learning data.…”

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An Ontology-Based Framework for Psychological Monitoring in Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021

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BackgroundEspecially in the current crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown it entailed, technology became crucial. Machines need to be able to interpret and represent human behavior, to improve human interaction with technology. This holds for all domains but even more so for the domain of student behavior in relation to education and psychological well-being.MethodsThis work presents the theoretical framework of a psychologically driven computing ontology, CCOnto, describing situation-based human behavior in relation to psychological states and traits. In this manuscript, we use and apply CCOnto as a theoretical and formal description system to categorize psychological factors that influence student behavior during the COVID-19 situation. By doing so, we show the added value of ontologies, i.e., their ability to automatically organize information from unstructured human data by identifying and categorizing relevant psychological concepts.ResultsThe already existing CCOnto was modified to automatically categorize university students’ state and trait markers related to different aspects of student behavior, including learning, worrying, health, and socially based on psychological theorizing and psychological data conceptualization.DiscussionThe paper discusses the potential advantages of using ontologies for describing and modeling psychological research questions. The handling of dataset completion, unification, and its explanation by means of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning models is also discussed.

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Section: Background: Ontologiesmentioning

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Section: Background: Ontologiesmentioning

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An Ontology-Based Framework for Psychological Monitoring in Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…This can be construed as representation, communication and automation needs for scale and variety in the design of educational technologies. In education domain, ontologies are used in a wide range of applications ranging from explicit representation of domain knowledge to automatic generation of personalized content (Sampson, Lytras, Wagner, & Diaz, 2004;Mizoguchi & Bourdeau, 2016;Tapia-Leon, Rivera, Chicaiza, & Luján-Mora, 2018;Yago, Clemente, Rodriguez, & Fernandez-de Cordoba, 2018;Stancin, Poscic, & Jaksic, 2020). Mizoguchi and Bourdeau (2016) have identified four key requirements of instructional authoring systems (i) adaptivity (ii) explicit conceptualization (iii) standardization to facilitate reuse (iv) theory-awareness.…”

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An ontology based modeling framework for design of educational technologies

Chimalakonda

Nori

2020

Smart Learn. Environ.

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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.

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EduCOR: An Educational and Career-Oriented Recommendation Ontology

Ilkou

Abu-Rasheed

Tavakoli

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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With the increased dependence on online learning platforms and educational resource repositories, a unified representation of digital learning resources becomes essential to support a dynamic and multi-source learning experience. We introduce the EduCOR ontology, an educational, career-oriented ontology that provides a foundation for representing online learning resources for personalised learning systems. The ontology is designed to enable learning material repositories to offer learning path recommendations, which correspond to the user’s learning goals and preferences, academic and psychological parameters, and labour-market skills. We present the multiple patterns that compose the EduCOR ontology, highlighting its cross-domain applicability and integrability with other ontologies. A demonstration of the proposed ontology on the real-life learning platform eDoer is discussed as a use case. We evaluate the EduCOR ontology using both gold standard and task-based approaches. The comparison of EduCOR to three gold schemata, and its application in two use-cases, shows its coverage and adaptability to multiple OER repositories, which allows generating user-centric and labour-market oriented recommendations.Resource: https://tibonto.github.io/educor/.

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Ontologies in education – state of the art

Cited by 42 publications

References 68 publications

An Ontology-Based Framework for Psychological Monitoring in Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

An Ontology-Based Framework for Psychological Monitoring in Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

An ontology based modeling framework for design of educational technologies

EduCOR: An Educational and Career-Oriented Recommendation Ontology

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