Bridging Education and Labor Skills by a Novel Competency-Based Course Linked-Data Model

Competency-based education (CBE) aligns with current requirements by providing students with competencies needed in real life. Emerging new styles of education, such as open courseware (OCW), massive open online course (MOOC) and open educational resources (OERs), play a role in renewing CBE by offe...

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Main Authors: Safia Nahhas, Omaimah Bamasag, Maher Khemakhem, Nada Bajnaid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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OCW
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8811475/
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spelling doaj-872a060e650b41b597e492d827c1a7862021-03-30T00:03:05ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-01711908711909810.1109/ACCESS.2019.29372338811475Bridging Education and Labor Skills by a Novel Competency-Based Course Linked-Data ModelSafia Nahhas0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3340-3565Omaimah Bamasag1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3150-0350Maher Khemakhem2Nada Bajnaid3Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaFaculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaFaculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaFaculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaCompetency-based education (CBE) aligns with current requirements by providing students with competencies needed in real life. Emerging new styles of education, such as open courseware (OCW), massive open online course (MOOC) and open educational resources (OERs), play a role in renewing CBE by offering the required open materials. In this paper, we propose a novel competency-based course model (CBC model) that was developed with two aims. The first aim was to represent the fundamental concepts of CBE courses by exploiting the expressivity of ontologies. The second aim was to design a CBC model to act as a bridge between the existing ontologies that represent education and open materials and the ontologies that represent competencies from labor knowledge bases by exploiting linked-data interoperability. The model was designed to provide materials at the competency level in addition to the course level in order to allow students who fail one competency to repeat its materials rather than the whole course. Though the dynamic nature of labor knowledge bases, the integrated competencies from labors linked-data repositories will be automatically updated based on linked-data features. The use of W3C standards and linked-data ontology engineering principles to design the CBC model make it reusable and expandable. A proof of concept application was used to show the possibility of using the model in real life by applying the model to educational systems, such as LMS. Applying the model can increase a university's appearance on the web, thus enhancing its reputation. Additionally, the model can increase the links between education and labor that form a substantial contribution from the linked-data science perspective.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8811475/Competency-based educationlinked-dataOCWontology
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author Safia Nahhas
Omaimah Bamasag
Maher Khemakhem
Nada Bajnaid
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Omaimah Bamasag
Maher Khemakhem
Nada Bajnaid
Bridging Education and Labor Skills by a Novel Competency-Based Course Linked-Data Model
IEEE Access
Competency-based education
linked-data
OCW
ontology
author_facet Safia Nahhas
Omaimah Bamasag
Maher Khemakhem
Nada Bajnaid
author_sort Safia Nahhas
title Bridging Education and Labor Skills by a Novel Competency-Based Course Linked-Data Model
title_short Bridging Education and Labor Skills by a Novel Competency-Based Course Linked-Data Model
title_full Bridging Education and Labor Skills by a Novel Competency-Based Course Linked-Data Model
title_fullStr Bridging Education and Labor Skills by a Novel Competency-Based Course Linked-Data Model
title_full_unstemmed Bridging Education and Labor Skills by a Novel Competency-Based Course Linked-Data Model
title_sort bridging education and labor skills by a novel competency-based course linked-data model
publisher IEEE
series IEEE Access
issn 2169-3536
publishDate 2019-01-01
description Competency-based education (CBE) aligns with current requirements by providing students with competencies needed in real life. Emerging new styles of education, such as open courseware (OCW), massive open online course (MOOC) and open educational resources (OERs), play a role in renewing CBE by offering the required open materials. In this paper, we propose a novel competency-based course model (CBC model) that was developed with two aims. The first aim was to represent the fundamental concepts of CBE courses by exploiting the expressivity of ontologies. The second aim was to design a CBC model to act as a bridge between the existing ontologies that represent education and open materials and the ontologies that represent competencies from labor knowledge bases by exploiting linked-data interoperability. The model was designed to provide materials at the competency level in addition to the course level in order to allow students who fail one competency to repeat its materials rather than the whole course. Though the dynamic nature of labor knowledge bases, the integrated competencies from labors linked-data repositories will be automatically updated based on linked-data features. The use of W3C standards and linked-data ontology engineering principles to design the CBC model make it reusable and expandable. A proof of concept application was used to show the possibility of using the model in real life by applying the model to educational systems, such as LMS. Applying the model can increase a university's appearance on the web, thus enhancing its reputation. Additionally, the model can increase the links between education and labor that form a substantial contribution from the linked-data science perspective.
topic Competency-based education
linked-data
OCW
ontology
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8811475/
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