A sustainable ICT education ontology

Author

Chin, Kum Leng ; Chang, Elizabeth

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Syst., Curtin Univ., Perth, WA, Australia

fYear

2011

fDate

May 31 2011-June 3 2011

Firstpage

350

Lastpage

354

Abstract

As Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays an increasingly important role in businesses and all kinds of industry the demand for ICT skilled workers has also increased significantly. To meet this demand young people are encouraged to study ICT and choose ICT as a career. However, ICT does not appeal to many young people due to its poor image and many employers have criticized ICT courses being out dated and irrelevant. In this paper we propose an ontological solution to organize knowledge in the domain of ICT education. The proposed ICT Education Ontology (IEO) consists of four related sub-ontologies: ICT curriculum, ICT jobs, ICT skills and ICT research. The purpose of the IEO is to provide clear definition on terms and concepts used in these four related areas within the context of ICT education.

Keywords

education; ontologies (artificial intelligence); ICT curriculum; ICT jobs; ICT research; ICT skilled workers; ICT skills; Information and Communication Technology; sub-ontologies; sustainable ICT education ontology; Australia; Computers; Ecosystems; Education; Engineering profession; Industries; Ontologies; ICT Education; ICT curriculum; ICT jobs; ICT research; ICT skills; Ontology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Conference (DEST), 2011 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Daejeon

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0871-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEST.2011.5936612

Filename

5936612