Ontology of educational process in the direction "Information systems and technologies"

This paper discusses the common problems of higher education, caused by the transition to a competence paradigm of learning as well as a necessity to take into account the needs of the labour market in specialists education process. Paper's authors had explored the use of ontological approach for solving higher school's tasks. The paper describes the applied ontology of academic process in the field of information systems and technologies and the labour market in this particular field. Furthermore, it presents the ontologies editor, developed by authors, which is part of the complex information technology. The concept of using the ontological approach to build mathematical models for optimization of educational process is being suggested.