Ontology Diagrams for Successful Knowledge Capture & Transfer
1. Ontology Diagrams
for Successful Knowledge
Capture & Transfer
Brandon Olson, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Business and Technology
The College of St. Scholastica
bolson1@css.edu
4. Business Case
Regional Accreditation
Professional Accreditation
Curricular Assessment
Embedded Documents
NELS – Field Experiences
Complete Assessment System
Need:
Understand department’s curricular
assessment domain to identify data
and process requirements
6. Ontology Layer
Topic Network
Mitri’s
Assessment
System
Model
Skill Network
Assessment Layer
Judgements
Agent Layer
Evaluators
Students
Mitri, M. (2003). A knowledge management framework for curricular
assessment. The Journal of Computer Information Systems, 43(4), 15.
7. Level 1
Hill’s Forms of
Assessment
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
• Satisfaction
• Knowledge & Skill Changes
• Performance Behavior Changes
• Applied Performance
Hill, A. (2007). Continuous curriculum assessment and improvement:
A case study. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, (112), 33-45.
8. Purpose
Systematic method to understand and
classify a domain area
Used to explore new domain areas
Ontology
Engineering
Types
Inspiration
Induction
Deduction
Synthesis
Collaboration
Holsapple, C.W., & Joshi. (2002). A collaborative approach to
ontology design. Communications of the ACM, 45(2), 42-47.
13. ID
1.00
Description
1.01
1.00
Faculty
Faculty are members of the academic department who perform evaluations as
part of the curricular review of individual courses and student performance on
classroom and clinical activities.
References: 1.49, 1.08, 1.21
1.02
Ontology
Specifications
Parent ID Topic
Evaluators
1.00
Preceptors
The preceptor is an experienced practitioner responsible for guiding and
facilitating the student learning experiences in the clinical setting of the
preceptor’s area of expertise. The preceptor evaluates the student’s knowledge
and skills demonstrated as part of the clinical learning experience.
References: 2.04.20, 3.03.09
1.03
1.00
Employers
Employers of graduates from the program evaluate the alumni’s demonstrated
effectiveness and skills relative achieving the program outcomes.
References: 1.51, 1.57
1.04
1.00
Students
Students evaluate course and seminar experiences as well as impressions of the
overall program. These evaluations take place as part of seminar exit surveys,
CoursEval satisfaction surveys, and program surveys.
References: 1.47, 1.48, 1.50, 1.52
Evaluees
Evaluees are the individuals or entities whose program curricular performance is
assessed by the evaluator.
2.00
Evaluators are the individuals performing a critical assessment of the evaluee
within the scope of assessing the program’s curricular performance.