An ontology approach to storing educational information

The modern educational process is characterized by the fact that the competencies and the content of education quickly change and dynamically vary depending on the needs of the specific groups of students. Especially strongly it is shown in the professional education, for example in information technologies. The teacher should have an opportunity to quickly and effectively arrange the content of education for the parameters of a specific course (for instance: type of group, periods of training, etc.) In these conditions, the traditional method of storing the information, such as the relational data model, seems difficult and inconvenient to manage with the permanently and dynamically changing structure of data. In this regard, the use of network models of data structure is required. In this paper, we present an ontological model for an information system for storning educational information. The authors propose the use of a wiki-engine for building an information system- and the SCORM-based organization of the training material. The experimental results have shown that the ontological approach for storing the educational information tends to cover the needs of the teachers in universities.