An Ontology for Representing Curriculum and Learning Material

TL;DR

This paper introduces the Curriculum KG Ontology, a framework designed to interlink educational materials across platforms, enhancing integration and accessibility through a structured knowledge graph validated by domain experts.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel ontology for representing and connecting curriculum and learning materials, enabling cross-platform integration and validation with real-world competency questions.

Findings

Developed the Curriculum KG Ontology for educational material integration

Created a materialized graph for the Prototype Open Knowledge Network

Validated the ontology using domain expert competency questions

Abstract

Educational, learning, and training materials have become extremely commonplace across the Internet. Yet, they frequently remain disconnected from each other, fall into platform silos, and so on. One way to overcome this is to provide a mechanism to integrate the material and provide cross-links across topics. In this paper, we present the Curriculum KG Ontology, which we use as a framework for the dense interlinking of educational materials, by first starting with organizational and broad pedagogical principles. We provide a materialized graph for the Prototype Open Knowledge Network use-case, and validate it using competency questions sourced from domain experts and educators.