Ontology for organizational learning objects based on LOM standard

Abstract

Organizational learning is an area that helps companies to improve their processes significantly through the reuse of experiences. An area that may help in this way is social learning. Collaborative tools, such as social network and wiki, enable collaborative work and are important facilitators of social learning process. However, collaboration is one of the several necessary components for learning. Therefore, it is important that all acquired knowledge be organized to be reused faster, easily and efficiently. Therefore, we propose using learning objects to organize the content inserted in collaborative tools. There are some learning object metadata to describe relevant learning objects characteristics and to catalog them. As these metadata are proposed to describe educational learning objects, they do not contemplate organizational characteristics, important for knowledge-intensive organizations. Moreover, the metadata are formally modeled through the XML-Schema language, which has a lack of expressiveness. Thus, trying to solve these limitations, the paper presents an ontology for organizational learning object based on IEEE LOM standard. The paper describes the ontology building process, following all the activities proposed in Methontology. Some experiments to evaluate the ontology are also presented