CURONTO: a semantic model of the curriculum for program assessment and improvement

• Autores: Auhood Alfaries, Maha Al-Yahya, Henda Chorfl, Remya P. George
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 30, no. 5, 2014, págs. 1083-1094
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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 courseand program levels in response to ABET accreditation requirements. To ensure the program delivers its educational objectives andstudent outcomes through a well-designed curriculum, we propose, in this paper, a semantic representation to model a completecurriculum using OWL ontology. Using such representation permits a global view of the internal relations and dependencies withinelements of a curriculum and hence enables the CIP to be carried out easily.