An Ontology and a Software Framework for Competency Modeling and Management
Gilbert Paquette · R-libre (Université Téluq) · 2007
The importance given to competency management is well justified. Acquiring new competencies is the central goal of any education or knowledge management process. Thus, it must be embedded in any software framework as an instructional engineering tool, to inform the runtime environment of the knowledge that is processed by actors, and their situation toward achieving competency-acquisition objectives. We present here some of our results in the last 10 years that have led to an ontology for designing competency-based learning and knowledge management applications. Based on this ontology, we present a software framework for ontology-driven e-learning systems. Keywords Ontology-driven e-learning system, Competency acquisition A search on the Internet is sufficient to show the importance given to competency profiles in human resource management and education. Ministries of education, school boards, and teacher training institutes use competency profiles to define school programs or teachers ’ required qualities, especially in the use of technologies in education. Consulting companies present their expertise by enumerating competencies, marketing their services in this way. Other companies offer services or computerized tools to help their prospective customers define or manage the