Catálogo-DI: SWRL Rules Definition that Conceptualize Instructional Design Methods for the Development of Learning Objects for Engineering Education

To enhance the chances of effective learning, it is appropriate to design learning experiences following the guidelines provided by Instructional Design Theories. Nevertheless, engineering educators are not familiar with such theories. Therefore, a catalogue of Instructional Design methods, Catálogo-DI, is proposed in this work. It will be part of the knowledge base of a recommender agent to assist inexperienced teachers in the process of developing learning objects. Catálogo-DI was defined from rules belonging to the Catalogue of Partial Representations of Instructional Design Theories proposed in the literature, and is implemented in Semantic Web Rules Language. Each catalogue applies to different ontological structures. The first applies to learning object ontology, Onto-OA (own authorship), while the second applies to ontology of learning designs as defined by the IMSLD specification. For this reason, it was necessary re-write rules presented in this work.