Title: An ontology for software engineering teaching modules

Authors: Heidi J.C. Ellis, Gregory W. Hislop

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106, USA. ' College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875, USA

Abstract: The World Wide Web is increasingly being used to allow both educators and learners to more easily locate desired information, as well as to support integration of related materials from different sources. This paper reports on an ontology constructed for the Network Community for Software Engineering Education (SWENET) and represents a teaching perspective on software engineering material. The addition of semantic mark up to teaching modules based on the SWENET ontology would allow instructors and learners to access material in the manner that best fits their educational needs, increase reuse of teaching materials and support integration with existing learning objects.

Keywords: semantic web; software engineering education; body of knowledge; SWEBOK; ontology; teaching modules; reuse; integration; learning objects; online learning; e-learning; web-based education; internet.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2007.015072

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2007 Vol.2 No.1, pp.11 - 22

Published online: 09 Sep 2007 *

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