Ontology for continuous learning and support

Abstract

Acquiring new knowledge and skills is the principal goal of any educational institution. Universities planned always to improve the learning methods to offer high academic competencies qualities for students. These competencies help students to respond to the needs of companies' missions during their internships. In some cases, some companies' missions required more competencies in a special domain activity. Therefore, we proposed our method based on a continuous learning ontology where a student can do his job with the support and assistance of a specific service or from his supervisor. This ontology will permit to take into consideration, in addition to competencies, the abilities of students to ensure interoperability between company and university by ensuring matching between the actual student skills and required mission skills. Thus, the proposed approach will establish an efficiency matching between the company needs and the students. Results show the benefits of such an approach to resolving the gap between industry needs and students' skills. Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.