Title: A Semantic Web system for supporting teachers using ontology alignment

Authors: Toshinobu Kasai, Haruhisa Yamaguchi, Kazuo Nagano, Riichiro Mizoguchi

Addresses: Faculty of Education, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan. ' Faculty of Education, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan. ' Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of the Sacred Heart, 4-3-1 Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8938, Japan. ' Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan

Abstract: In Japan, it is important to provide teachers of Information Technology Education (IT) with a powerful help system that can locate and provide access to a variety of useful information resources. To this end, we built an ontology of the goal of IT education and its applications based on Semantic Web technology. This application was based on the alignment of ontologies to reuse the results of other research. Furthermore, we propose a Goal Transition Model to show a skeleton of the transition of instructional goals based on ontologies. Finally, we propose support functions that are used in the model.

Keywords: semantic web; ontologies; IT education; education support; lesson plans; information technology; Japan; instructional goals; teaching.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2007.015074

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2007 Vol.2 No.1, pp.35 - 44

Published online: 09 Sep 2007 *

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