Integration of Competencies in an Ontology-Based Framework Supporting Teachers to Construct Learning Designs in the Domain of Sustainable Energy Education

• Authors: Sotirios Karetsos , Dias Haralambopoulos
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In previous work, a framework based on three ontologies (content, learning design and sustainable energy domain models) was introduced in order to support teachers to construct learning designs in the field of sustainable energy education. This paper is focusing on the integration of a competency model in the structure of this framework. This model actually interconnects the other three models by establishing connections between learning objects, learners, activities, learning objectives/competencies and knowledge in the sustainable energy domain. It enriches the description of learning resources enabling their search and retrieval via queries based on competency parameters and can also support competency-based reasoning in order for the competency gaps to be filled. The competency model came as an answer to a literature review triggered by some results of a Wizard of Oz experiment along with the aim to integrate into the framework sets of questions supporting learning in sustainable energy domain.

Keywords

EN

ontology; learning design; competency; sustainable energy; learning object; semantic web applications

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 129-139

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2011-07-12

Contributors

author

Sotirios Karetsos

• University of the Aegean, Greece

author

Dias Haralambopoulos

• University of the Aegean, Greece

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10099-011-0010-4