Title: Total Resolution for Human Resource Development Based on Competency Ontology
Autors: Kenji Hirata, Mitsuru Ikeda, Riichiro Mizoguchi
Reference: Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Computers in
Education(ICCE'2001), pp.1149-1152, Seoul, Korea, November 12 - 15, 2001.
Abstract: While there are various advancement of education system development, an issue namely Interoperability occurs particularly in Human Resource Development, which is the largest obstruction factor for utilizing information technology in HRD. In order to resolve such obstruction factor, we thought that the perspective on the whole education system in designing would be needed rather than one on each piece of the system. Therefore, we modeled a total education system, on which various systems and persons are concerned to exchange data and reach a mutual consensus. Furthermore, in developing a HRD design support system from the standpoint of total design, we set each ontology related to HRD as foundational technologies, that is, "Competency", "Benefit of Learning Contents" and "HRD Needs". Through such experiments, we made the design process and activities explicit, which were depended on judgment call and tacit knowledge conventionally, and made some linkage possible on shared understanding. Until now, HRD design was not able to be absolutely covered by human processing ability and was not stable enough to assure its quality. Then we showed the framework for HRD design. To be concrete, only formative information has been used to reach a mutual consensus in the HRD design process among participants, but these ontologies we developed will move their attention to understanding of content of a educational plan and to lead a rational design and mutual consensus.