Title: Total Resolution for Human Resource Development Based on Competency Ontology
Autors: Kenji Hirata, Mitsuru Ikeda, Riichiro Mizoguchi
Reference: Transactions of Japanese Society of Information and Systems
inEducation, Vol. 18, No. 34, pp.340-351, 2001.(In Japanese)
Abstract: While there are various advancement of education system development, an issue namely Interoperability occurs particularly on Human Resource Development, which is the largest obstruction factor for utilizing information technology on HRD. In order to resolve such obstruction factors, we thought that the perspective on the whole education system would be needed rather than one on each piece of the system in designing. Therefore, we modeled a total education system where various systems and persons are concerned to exchange data or reach mutual consensus. Furthermore, in developing HRD design support system from the standpoint of a total design, we set each ontology related to HRD, 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. Then we showed a framework for HRD design that was unable to be covered by human processing ability absolutely and unstable in its quality to improve its quality assurance. To be concrete, only formative information has been used to reach mutual consensus in the HRD design process among the participants but the ontology moves their attention to understanding of the content of HRD plan to lead the rational mutual consensus and design.