An Educational Ontology for Teaching University Courses

The developers of some e-learning platforms, that were reported in the last years, started to design and implement educational ontologies. Such ontologies are key issues for the web-based education. As an ontology represents a conceptualization of a knowledge domain, in the particular case of an educational ontology, the content of the educational modules of a course is modeled. Any university course has several characteristics such as a curriculum, a length, a specific audience, learning goals etc. The organization of a course can be, for example, under the form of chapters and sub-chapters or modules and sub-modules. The main concepts that has to be taught are included in the educational ontology. The paper presents an educational ontology, Univ_Edu_Onto, developed in Prot g, that has general terms for a university course, and specific terms for the course of Artificial Intelligence, that is teached to undergraduate students.