Combining METHONTOLOGY and a Model Driven Ontology Approach to Build an Educational Ontology

Intelligent Learning Environments can be broadly defined as computer-based educational systems that rely on diverse Artificial Intelligence techniques to improve students learning experience, and help them reach their learning objectives. In this context, when it comes to formal and sharable representation of knowledge, Semantic Web technologies in general, and ontologies in particular offer a promising solution to represent knowledge. On the other hand, ontologies are more closely related to concepts of Artificial Intelligence paradigms and are typically unknown to a large population of software engineers. Still obvious overlaps between both fields is emerging a hybrid approach to systems development, combining Semantic Web technologies and techniques with more established development formalisms and languages like the Unified Modeling Language. Therefore, this paper proposes to combine the Methontology and a Model Driven Architecture approach to build educational ontologies.