Creating and Using an Education Standards Ontology to Improve Education
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Rashid, Sabbir
McGuinness, Deborah L.
Issue Date
2018-10
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Abstract
We present an education standards ontology that has the
potential for simplifying lesson planning for teachers, providing support
for students by linking relevant resources, and providing a potential terminology for use in a lingua-franca for communicating with multiple
communities about education components. We address the United Nations sustainable development goals concerned with education, with the
support of semantic technologies. The goals of ensuring that all children graduate from primary and secondary schools and ensuring literacy
and numeracy are our targets. We have created an education standards
ontology along with a methodology for automatically generating this
ontology. In this submission, we review literature related to educational
applications that use semantic technologies and describe a web scraping
method that we designed and used to automatically generate an education standards ontology. We also describe some potential uses of this
ontology to assist in the UN education goals and reflect on next steps
on uses of these existing educational resources to aide in improving literacy and numeracy in students and enabling future potential services
and impact for an Educational Semantic Web.
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Sabbir M. Rashid, Deborah L. McGuinness: Creating and Using an Education Standards Ontology to Improve Education. Semantic Web For Social Good Workshop Proceedings. Colocated with the International Semantic Web Conference, October, 2018.
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CEUR-WS