Abstract: Learning designs are central resources for educational environments because they provide the organizational structure of learning activities; they are concrete instructional methods. We characterize each learning design by the competencies they target. We define competencies at the meta-knowledge level, as generic processes acting on domain-specific knowledge. We summarize a functional taxonomy of generic skills that draws upon three fields of knowledge: education, software engineering and artificial intelligence. This taxonomy provides the backbone of an ontology for learning designs, enabling the creation of a library of learning designs based on their cognitive and meta-cognitive properties.

Gilbert Paquette, “A Competency-Based Ontology for Learning Design Repositories” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 5(1), 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050108

@article{Paquette2014,
title = {A Competency-Based Ontology for Learning Design Repositories},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050108},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2014.050108},
year = {2014},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {5},
number = {1},
author = {Gilbert Paquette}
}