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ERIC Number: EJ814064
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1436-4522
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Developing Domain Ontologies for Course Content
Boyce, Sinead; Pahl, Claus
Educational Technology & Society, v10 n3 p275-288 2007
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. (Contains 1 table and 6 figures.)
International Forum of Educational Technology & Society. Athabasca University, School of Computing & Information Systems, 1 University Drive, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3, Canada. Tel: 780-675-6812; Fax: 780-675-6973; Web site: http://www.ifets.info
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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