CURONTO: A Semantic Model of the Curriculum for Program Assessment and Improvement
Alfaries, Auhood . 2014
The Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) of an academic program in higher education is a tedious and time consuming task. Updating any part in the curriculum requires a thorough review of all the related and subsequent courses. Since 2008 the B.Sc. program of Information Technology (BSIT) in King Saud University (KSU), has initiated a CIP based on outcomes of both course and program levels in response to ABET accreditation requirements. To ensure the program delivers its educational objectives and student outcomes through a well-designed curriculum, we propose, in this paper, a semantic representation to model a complete curriculum using OWL ontology. Using such representation permits a global view of the internal relations and dependencies within elements of a curriculum and hence enables the CIP to be carried out easily.
We have witnessed a great interest in ontologies as an emerging technology within the Semantic Web. Its foundation that was laid in the last decade paved the way for the development of ontologies…
The Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) of an academic program in higher education is a tedious and time consuming task. Updating any part in the curriculum requires a thorough review of all the…