Teaching (ongoing)

Introduction

Description

This profile describes the essential elements of university teaching.

For advanced users, find in OntoME the details on this profile.

Use Cases

• Record information on the career and activities of university staff members.

Classes

Among others, this profile contains the following classes:

Academic chair (C6)

This class comprises professorships or other form of instutionalized teaching positions at a university or academy. A university chair is a legal object and is not to be confused with the holder who is a person.

Example

• Professorship for chemistry at the University of Vienna.

Social actor embodiment (C13)

This class comprises the fact of having a more or less formally defined social role or function in a group at a given moment or during a given time-span.

In the context of Teaching, these can for example be individuals (persons) that in a given moment have been nominated/selected for a given job/position/duty.

Example

• Person xy is Professor for chemistry at the University of Vienna

Academic discipline (C5)

Also called field of study, research field and branch of knowledge, an academic discipline is a subdivision of knowledge that is taught and researched at university level and higher academic institutions but also simply taught at school or college. It is defined as a complex set of rules, methods, objects and results identified by its propositional content.

Example:

• Astronomy

Academic Position (C7)

An academic position is the rank of a scientist or teacher in a college, high school, university or research establishment. It indicates relative importance and power of individuals in academia, and is generally associated with rights and duties defined by the university statutes or the law of a country.

Examples

• Full professor

• Associate professor

• Lecturer

• Research assistant

Teaching (C1)

This class models teaching as a phase in which a person teaches a subject usually at an institution of higher education. It is the act of teaching that is being modelled, not the fact of holding a chair or an academic position. Teaching may be subject to temporary interruptions and spread over a longer period.

Example

• Person xy teaches "digital history" at the University of Basel.

Overview