Development of a System that Supports Teachers of IT Education in the Instructional Design Process based on Ontology

A goal of IT education is to enable students to acquire the ability of using information in order to live in a modern information-oriented society. Such meta-ability cannot be learned in the traditional Japanese instructional way of knowledge being transmitted by teachers. When a teacher designs a lesson plan for IT education, it is necessary to include not only the target goal of the unit but also other related goals determined by types of teaching tools and teaching materials. The purpose of this study is to support the teacher of IT education in the process of designing the lesson plan. For this purpose, we propose a process for instructional which is adapted to IT education. And, we develop a system which supports the teacher in setting tangible goals in the instructional design process.