On the Use of Educational Ontologies as Support Tools for Didactical Activities

The basic characteristic of an educational process is knowledge sharing. In this context it is important to have an efficient method for knowledge representation that uses the concepts specific to the educational domain. Ontologies provides a solution for solving the problem of knowledge representation. In the last years it was highlighted the great importance of using ontologies when developping a web-based education. Educational ontologies can model the content of the course for all three phases of a didactical activity: teaching, learning and examination. The paper proposes a general framework for the development of educational ontologies as support tools for these three activities, and presents a case study of applying the framework to a course from the field of Computer Science.