Building of an Ontology of the Goal of IT Education and Its Applications

In Japan, interest in IT education has continued to grow. Most goals of IT education involve meta-ability, which cannot be fully learned by traditional Japanese instructional methods. It is difficult to design effective IT education materials, and at present there are few specialists in IT education. For this reason, it is necessary and important to provide IT instructors with a powerful help system that can locate and provide access to a variety of useful information resources. To that end, we are building a system that reconstructs the resources according to the various viewpoints based on an ontology of IT education we built. Further, we propose a framework to make use of the results of another ontology by alignment of these ontologies based on Semantic Web technology.