Building and Use of a Learning/Instructional Theory Ontology - Prototyping of a Theory-aware Authoring system -

Abstract

This study focuses on educational theories as a kind of pedagogical knowledge and proposes an information sys-tem that helps users to utilize them for instructional and learning design. We take an ontological engineering approach to grasp fundamental concepts of learning and instruction, and to enable information systems to be aware of the theories on the basis of such concepts. Through this approach we have proposed a comprehensive ontology that covers different theories and paradigms and a modeling framework of learning and instructional scenario based on it. This paper discusses the overview of the ontology and the modeling framework, and the prototype system of an theory-aware authoring system based on them.