Title
The Use of Ontologies for Syllabus Representation
Abstract
A syllabus is an important document for teachers, students, and institutions. It represents what and how a course will be conducted. Some authors have researched regarding the components for writing a good syllabus. However, there is not a standard format universally accepted by all educators. Even inside the same university, there are syllabuses written in different type of files like PDF, DOC, HTML, for instance. These kind of files are easily readable by humans but it is not the same by machines. On the other hand, ontologies are technologies of knowledge representation that allow setting information understandable for both humans and machines. In this paper, we present a literature review regarding the use of ontologies for syllabus representation. The objective of this paper is to know the use of ontologies to represent a syllabus semantically and to determine their score according to the five-stars of Linked Data vocabulary use scale. Our results show that some researchers have used ontologies for many purposes, widely concerning with learning objectives. Nevertheless, the ontologies created by the authors do not fulfill with the five-stars rating and do not have all components of a well-suited syllabus.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ITHET.2018.8424788
2018 17th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)
Keywords
Field
DocType
higher education institute,ontology,semantic web,syllabus
Ontology (information science),Knowledge representation and reasoning,World Wide Web,Syllabus,Computer science,Linked data,Vocabulary,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-4624-3
1
0.39
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mariela Tapia-León110.39
Abdon Carrera Rivera210.39
Janneth Chicaiza33410.91
Sergio Luján-mora442447.92