This article introduces a framework for automatically extracting knowledge from student blogs and injecting it into a shared resource, namely a Wiki. This is motivated by the need to preserve knowledge
generated by students beyond their time of study. The framework is described in the context of the Bachelor
of Creative Technologies degree at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand where it is
being deployed alongside an existing blogging and ePortfolio process. The framework uses an extensible, layered architecture that allows for incremental development of components in the system to enhance the
functionality over time. The current implementation is in beta-testing and uses simple heuristics in the core components. This article presents a road map for extending the functionality to improve the quality of knowledge extraction by introducing techniques from the artificial intelligence field.
The paper examines how four innovative Internet technologies - blogging, audio conferencing, instant messaging, and Harvard's Rotisserie system - were incorporated into an online course at the UK Open University. Student feedback on using the technologies was positive. The learning object-based course design facilitated incorporating new technologies by allowing flexible ordering and selection of course content. As students grow accustomed to tools like forums, educators will likely implement a range of technologies to support different communication needs.
The document summarizes a presentation on hybrid courses that blend face-to-face instruction with online learning using social interaction technologies. It defines a hybrid course as combining in-person and online learning, with a significant portion of activities occurring online. The document outlines various social technologies used in hybrid courses like blogs, wikis, podcasts and learning management systems. It discusses benefits of hybrid courses for students, faculty and universities, as well as challenges, such as requiring self-motivation from students.
Open Educational Practices at Tallinn UniversityHans Põldoja
Presentation at the International workshop of the CURE project “Curriculum Reform for Promoting Democratic Principles and Civic Education in Israel and in Georgia, 22 August 2018, Tallinn University.
Open Educational Resources and Practices in EstoniaHans Põldoja
- The document discusses open educational resources and practices in Estonia. It provides background information on Estonia's education system and key policies related to digital learning and lifelong learning.
- It describes several major open educational resource repositories in Estonia, which contain thousands of learning resources mostly under open licenses. This includes the e-Koolikott repository focused on secondary education resources.
- The document also discusses open online courses provided by Estonian universities and the use of blog-based open online courses at Tallinn University. Challenges in designing and coordinating blog-based courses are addressed.
Using Web Tools To Enhance Teaching & Learningguest64acb3a
Presentación sobre el uso de herramientas de la Web 2.0 en dos cursos graduados que ofrezco en la Escuela Graduada de Ciencias y Tecnologías de la información, en la UPR. Presentada en la Conferencia Anual de HETS, enero de 2010.
Using Web Tools To Enhance Teaching & Learningguestd009ee0
The document summarizes the use of blended learning and web 2.0 tools in a graduate course on information technologies. The instructor used a course blog, wiki, and videoconferencing to actively engage students and allow flexible access to course materials. Students strengthened research skills using various technologies and learned to communicate and collaborate online. Students reported satisfaction with the blended approach and recognized the value of internet tools for their professional development.
This document summarizes a paper about how concepts from Web 2.0 have influenced e-learning. It discusses several core Web 2.0 technologies that are also relevant to e-learning 2.0, such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, and RSS. It provides examples of early e-learning tools from 2005 that incorporated collaborative aspects similar to Web 2.0 principles. The document also reviews surveys on the usage of Web 2.0 technologies among students and academics, finding that Wikipedia and discussion forums are commonly used for study purposes, while the usage of other technologies varies more by age. In general, familiarity with Web 2.0 remains relatively low.
The paper examines how four innovative Internet technologies - blogging, audio conferencing, instant messaging, and Harvard's Rotisserie system - were incorporated into an online course at the UK Open University. Student feedback on using the technologies was positive. The learning object-based course design facilitated incorporating new technologies by allowing flexible ordering and selection of course content. As students grow accustomed to tools like forums, educators will likely implement a range of technologies to support different communication needs.
The document summarizes a presentation on hybrid courses that blend face-to-face instruction with online learning using social interaction technologies. It defines a hybrid course as combining in-person and online learning, with a significant portion of activities occurring online. The document outlines various social technologies used in hybrid courses like blogs, wikis, podcasts and learning management systems. It discusses benefits of hybrid courses for students, faculty and universities, as well as challenges, such as requiring self-motivation from students.
Open Educational Practices at Tallinn UniversityHans Põldoja
Presentation at the International workshop of the CURE project “Curriculum Reform for Promoting Democratic Principles and Civic Education in Israel and in Georgia, 22 August 2018, Tallinn University.
Open Educational Resources and Practices in EstoniaHans Põldoja
- The document discusses open educational resources and practices in Estonia. It provides background information on Estonia's education system and key policies related to digital learning and lifelong learning.
- It describes several major open educational resource repositories in Estonia, which contain thousands of learning resources mostly under open licenses. This includes the e-Koolikott repository focused on secondary education resources.
- The document also discusses open online courses provided by Estonian universities and the use of blog-based open online courses at Tallinn University. Challenges in designing and coordinating blog-based courses are addressed.
Using Web Tools To Enhance Teaching & Learningguest64acb3a
Presentación sobre el uso de herramientas de la Web 2.0 en dos cursos graduados que ofrezco en la Escuela Graduada de Ciencias y Tecnologías de la información, en la UPR. Presentada en la Conferencia Anual de HETS, enero de 2010.
Using Web Tools To Enhance Teaching & Learningguestd009ee0
The document summarizes the use of blended learning and web 2.0 tools in a graduate course on information technologies. The instructor used a course blog, wiki, and videoconferencing to actively engage students and allow flexible access to course materials. Students strengthened research skills using various technologies and learned to communicate and collaborate online. Students reported satisfaction with the blended approach and recognized the value of internet tools for their professional development.
This document summarizes a paper about how concepts from Web 2.0 have influenced e-learning. It discusses several core Web 2.0 technologies that are also relevant to e-learning 2.0, such as wikis, blogs, podcasts, and RSS. It provides examples of early e-learning tools from 2005 that incorporated collaborative aspects similar to Web 2.0 principles. The document also reviews surveys on the usage of Web 2.0 technologies among students and academics, finding that Wikipedia and discussion forums are commonly used for study purposes, while the usage of other technologies varies more by age. In general, familiarity with Web 2.0 remains relatively low.
Digital technologies for learning in prison: what one Australian university i...Helen Farley
In most Australian correctional jurisdictions, prisoners are not allowed access to the internet precluding them from participating in higher education online. Making the Connection is an Australian government funded project which is taking digital technologies, that don’t require internet access, into prisons to enable prisoners to enroll in a suite of pre-tertiary and undergraduate programs. A version of the University of Southern Queensland’s learning management system has been installed onto the education server of participating prisons. The second stage of the project will see notebook computers preloaded with the learning management system and course materials, allocated to participating prisoners. At the time of writing, the project has been deployed at thirteen sites in Queensland and Western Australia, with a further three sites coming on board in time for semester I 2016 and negotiations underway for further rollout to Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory.
Rapid e-learning, as an informal educational tool for advanced studentseLearning Papers
Author: Nicolò Antonio Piave.
This article deals with the possibility of introducing rapid e-learning software, usually used by teachers and content producers, into a hybrid learning paradigm and informal educational tool.
Nettilukio offers a comprehensive Finnish upper secondary school study programme online, using a learning platform, virtual classroom technology, wikis and blogs, which is aimed at adults aged 17-75...
The goals of this meeting/informal discussion are:
(a) To deliver a short presentation of the green-paper focused on the Brazilian OER Project. Abstract:
" The State and Challenges of OER in Brazil. by, Carolina Rossini
The paper map the Open Educational Resources efforts in Brazil, understanding the role they play in the educational context and if they are developed under a consistent educational policy. Questions of how educational policy is favorable to OER, and how much public funding flows into educational materials (mainly textbooks) are discussed. The paper starts with a brief introduction of how the concept of Open Educational Resources dialogues with the concept of development. The second portion explores the state of education in Brazil, its policy governance, structures and institutions. The third section is focused on an analysis of Brazilian educational projects as fulfilling or not the concept of Open Educational Resources as understood by UNESCO and under the principles of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education. The fourth section is focused on the issue of textbooks in Brazil, analyzing public policies and governmental purchase programs, and also the challenges faced for the equivalent to the K-12 level and to the college level, also touching on the flow of public investments into the production and distribution of textbooks. Finally, a series of policy recommendations is drawn for further discussion."
(b) To develop discussion around the validity of the green-paper recommendations as recommendations that are horizontal to different countries, building upon the Cape Town Declaration;
(c) To discuss the role played by copyright and open licensing;
(d) Open X Free: strategies and benefits in diferent national contexts;
(e) To build collaboration among country projects.
This document discusses strategies for making e-learning more effective and disruptive. It suggests that e-learning has not fully replaced traditional education and proposes ideas to disrupt traditional pedagogies, including shifting from learning management systems to digital repositories, focusing on learning activities rather than content, and supporting interaction over information delivery. It also advocates assessing learning journeys rather than just end products.
The document discusses blended learning and the integration of web technologies into language teaching. It defines blended learning as combining online and offline instruction. Blended learning provides benefits for both students and faculty by offering flexibility and active learning opportunities. However, a shift is needed from a teacher-centered approach to a more student-centered one that fosters autonomy and takes advantage of web tools. Constructivism, connectivism, and Web 2.0 can support this shift by emphasizing social and informal learning.
Open Educational Resources and Practices in EstoniaHans Põldoja
This document provides an overview of open educational resources and practices in Estonia. It discusses key concepts in open education such as MIT OpenCourseWare and Creative Commons licenses. It then outlines several open educational initiatives and repositories in Estonia, including Koolielu, HITSA repository, LeMill, and course materials from various universities. The document also discusses why open educational resources are beneficial for both learners and teachers. It provides examples of open online courses in Estonia and experiments with open assessment using open badges. Overall, the document gives a comprehensive look at the landscape of open educational resources and practices currently available in Estonia.
This document provides guidelines for integrating open educational resources (OER) into higher education. It contains 3 sections: an introduction outlining the purpose and rationale of OER; guidelines for various higher education stakeholders including governments, institutions, academic staff, students, and quality assurance bodies; and references. The introduction discusses the challenges facing higher education and how OER can help address issues of access, costs and quality. It emphasizes that OER have transformative potential if institutions invest in developing, adapting and using quality materials. The guidelines section provides specific, action-oriented suggestions for each stakeholder group to promote greater use and sharing of OER.
Kuidas siduda õppetööd ja hariduslikke disainiuuringuid?Hans Põldoja
This document summarizes Hans Põldoja's lecture on connecting learning activities and educational design research. Some key points:
- Põldoja discusses using learner-centered methods and openness as principles for connecting learning and research.
- He presents examples of blog-based online courses and their format, which includes a course blog, student personal blogs, and the use of Web 2.0 tools. Assignments are posted on the course blog and student homework on their personal blogs.
- Benefits of using blogs in learning include improving student self-expression, supporting peer collaboration, providing feedback opportunities, and motivating students. Challenges include fragmented discussions across blogs and a lack of management tools
eLearning – Opportunities And Challenges (Sln)Nigel Gibson
The document discusses opportunities and challenges of eLearning. It maps various issues around online learning provision and supporting learning online. Key points include defining common terms like blended learning; considering a spectrum of online learning approaches from fully online to fully face-to-face; examples of open content initiatives and how they can be used; the importance of connecting learners in various ways online; and how technologies are converging, providing more opportunities for online learning through various devices.
Beyond the Open Educational Resource move – towards Open and Participatory Le...Andreas Meiszner
Internet version of the presentation prepared for the
FKFT Free Knowledge, Free Technology
Education for a free information society
First International Conference, Barcelona July 15th to 17th 2008
Chapter 12 case study realising the vision of oergrainne
The document discusses two initiatives, Olnet and OPAL, that aim to address the lack of uptake and reuse of Open Educational Resources (OER) despite significant investments. Olnet is a partnership between universities that develops infrastructure and communities to support OER design, evaluation, and sharing of practices. It uses tools like CompendiumLD and Cloudworks to support an OER effectiveness lifecycle of select, design, use, and evaluate resources. OPAL also aims to enhance OER quality and innovation through various strategies, models, tools, and skills development. Both initiatives seek to provide guidance and foster the transfer of good practices to help teachers and learners effectively harness OER potential.
This document summarizes a keynote presentation about designing learning in an open world utilizing new technologies. It discusses how social media and open educational resources provide opportunities for collaboration and sharing of resources. However, learners and teachers lack digital literacy skills to make effective use of these tools. The document outlines a vision for the future of learning leveraging new technologies. It also discusses challenges, including a lack of skills and issues integrating new tools. The presentation focuses on strategies to address these challenges through research on open educational practices and designing learning experiences that effectively combine pedagogy and technology.
Pedagogical Practices, Personal Learning Environments and the Future of eLe...Rui Páscoa
This document discusses pedagogical practices in elearning and the influence of personal learning environments (PLEs). It summarizes interviews with two experts in the field, Graham Attwell and José Lagarto. They believe that elearning should adopt a mix of pedagogical models rather than a single approach. While PLEs are tools, they are also part of the learning process by providing learners autonomy and connections to knowledge networks. PLEs allow learners to personalize their tools and resources to support formal and informal lifelong learning.
Open Educational Resources in Aquaculture Education and TrainingJohn Bostock
The document discusses open educational resources (OER) in aquaculture education and training. It defines OER as teaching and learning materials in the public domain or released under an open license allowing free use and modification. While OER offer benefits like cost savings and quality improvements, there are also barriers to their widespread adoption. For aquaculture, the availability of OER is currently limited, though initiatives like the Aqua-tnet project have increased resources. Further developing OER in aquaculture could help educators and provide educational opportunities, but challenges around funding, copyright, and pedagogy remain.
This document discusses various massive open online courses (MOOCs) platforms and providers. It begins by defining a MOOC as an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web, using videos, readings, and problem sets along with interactive discussion forums. It notes that MOOCs are a recent development in distance education. It then discusses some key characteristics of MOOCs including being free, open to anyone with an internet connection, and having very large enrollments. The document goes on to summarize several major MOOC platforms including edX, Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy, and a proposed local platform called Knowbita. It provides brief overviews of their approaches, features, and
Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Content ManagementCSCJournals
The last few decades have witnessed development in new Web technologies and tools. The current iteration of the Web: Web 2.0 offers several components that facilitate the learning process. Online teaching and learning tools among others, is one such component. This new technology as manifested in wikis and blogs has gained recognition for their potential use in colleges and academic institutions. They are Web tools that can facilitate professor-student collaboration and student-student interaction and collaboration. They also provide a means of constructing and building knowledge. This article discusses the use of wikis and blogs as tools for teaching and learning. It also reports on the implementation of these technologies in an academic institution.
This document describes the design and implementation of a virtual classroom system. It discusses how traditional classroom teaching has limitations in terms of time and place constraints. A virtual classroom system was developed using PHP and MySQL to address these limitations. The system allows course materials to be presented online using multimedia and hypermedia, providing flexibility and interactivity for learning. It has modules for students to access course content, answer questions, check their performance, and participate in discussion forums. The system aims to enhance the learning experience by making it more flexible and available anywhere with an internet connection.
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR ONLINE LANGUAGE TEACHER TRAINING: CONCEPTUAL F...IJITE
This paper discusses a conceptual framework for the design of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for
online language teacher training including an example of practical implementation. The authors identify in
the principles of micro- and macro- learning, cognitive load theory and Threshold Concepts (TCs), the key
elements that lead to the creation of effective OERs designed for the Lilac Project which aims to support
language teachers in managing online learning environments. Data from questionnaires and focus groups
were utilised to establish a set of TCs connected to online language teaching. These were then crossreferenced with existing TCs, and utilised to create micro learning content that does not negatively impact
the cognitive load, but, at the same time, is positioned within a larger macro structure that allows for the
development of deeper knowledge and competences. The structure of Lilac OERs will be presented as a
practical example of how the potential of technologies to support learning can be embedded in online
contexts.
IRJET- Developing Online Pre-Induction Courses and E-Learning & E-Teachin...IRJET Journal
This document discusses developing online pre-induction courses (OPICs) and experiences with e-learning and e-teaching. It proposes a framework for OPICs as the primary component of a learning support structure for university students. OPICs aim to prepare students for higher education by providing information before their first term and introducing intellectual skills. The framework incorporates OPICs, induction, individual tutorials, and lectures/seminars. It emphasizes the benefits of blended learning and online learning, such as improved interactions and flexible learning opportunities. Communities of inquiry and educational technologies can also enhance learning in higher education.
This project implemented nine school repositories and one university-wide learning repository integrated within the university's virtual learning environment to support sharing and reuse of learning resources. The project aimed to increase deposit and usage of resources through establishing workflows for content creation and resource sharing. Key outcomes included developing a metadata schema and selection criteria for learning objects, as well as increasing strategic focus on repository provision as reflected in university policies and strategies. The project successfully implemented the technical infrastructure but did not develop an interface between the learning repository and institutional repository as originally planned.
Digital technologies for learning in prison: what one Australian university i...Helen Farley
In most Australian correctional jurisdictions, prisoners are not allowed access to the internet precluding them from participating in higher education online. Making the Connection is an Australian government funded project which is taking digital technologies, that don’t require internet access, into prisons to enable prisoners to enroll in a suite of pre-tertiary and undergraduate programs. A version of the University of Southern Queensland’s learning management system has been installed onto the education server of participating prisons. The second stage of the project will see notebook computers preloaded with the learning management system and course materials, allocated to participating prisoners. At the time of writing, the project has been deployed at thirteen sites in Queensland and Western Australia, with a further three sites coming on board in time for semester I 2016 and negotiations underway for further rollout to Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory.
Rapid e-learning, as an informal educational tool for advanced studentseLearning Papers
Author: Nicolò Antonio Piave.
This article deals with the possibility of introducing rapid e-learning software, usually used by teachers and content producers, into a hybrid learning paradigm and informal educational tool.
Nettilukio offers a comprehensive Finnish upper secondary school study programme online, using a learning platform, virtual classroom technology, wikis and blogs, which is aimed at adults aged 17-75...
The goals of this meeting/informal discussion are:
(a) To deliver a short presentation of the green-paper focused on the Brazilian OER Project. Abstract:
" The State and Challenges of OER in Brazil. by, Carolina Rossini
The paper map the Open Educational Resources efforts in Brazil, understanding the role they play in the educational context and if they are developed under a consistent educational policy. Questions of how educational policy is favorable to OER, and how much public funding flows into educational materials (mainly textbooks) are discussed. The paper starts with a brief introduction of how the concept of Open Educational Resources dialogues with the concept of development. The second portion explores the state of education in Brazil, its policy governance, structures and institutions. The third section is focused on an analysis of Brazilian educational projects as fulfilling or not the concept of Open Educational Resources as understood by UNESCO and under the principles of the Cape Town Declaration on Open Education. The fourth section is focused on the issue of textbooks in Brazil, analyzing public policies and governmental purchase programs, and also the challenges faced for the equivalent to the K-12 level and to the college level, also touching on the flow of public investments into the production and distribution of textbooks. Finally, a series of policy recommendations is drawn for further discussion."
(b) To develop discussion around the validity of the green-paper recommendations as recommendations that are horizontal to different countries, building upon the Cape Town Declaration;
(c) To discuss the role played by copyright and open licensing;
(d) Open X Free: strategies and benefits in diferent national contexts;
(e) To build collaboration among country projects.
This document discusses strategies for making e-learning more effective and disruptive. It suggests that e-learning has not fully replaced traditional education and proposes ideas to disrupt traditional pedagogies, including shifting from learning management systems to digital repositories, focusing on learning activities rather than content, and supporting interaction over information delivery. It also advocates assessing learning journeys rather than just end products.
The document discusses blended learning and the integration of web technologies into language teaching. It defines blended learning as combining online and offline instruction. Blended learning provides benefits for both students and faculty by offering flexibility and active learning opportunities. However, a shift is needed from a teacher-centered approach to a more student-centered one that fosters autonomy and takes advantage of web tools. Constructivism, connectivism, and Web 2.0 can support this shift by emphasizing social and informal learning.
Open Educational Resources and Practices in EstoniaHans Põldoja
This document provides an overview of open educational resources and practices in Estonia. It discusses key concepts in open education such as MIT OpenCourseWare and Creative Commons licenses. It then outlines several open educational initiatives and repositories in Estonia, including Koolielu, HITSA repository, LeMill, and course materials from various universities. The document also discusses why open educational resources are beneficial for both learners and teachers. It provides examples of open online courses in Estonia and experiments with open assessment using open badges. Overall, the document gives a comprehensive look at the landscape of open educational resources and practices currently available in Estonia.
This document provides guidelines for integrating open educational resources (OER) into higher education. It contains 3 sections: an introduction outlining the purpose and rationale of OER; guidelines for various higher education stakeholders including governments, institutions, academic staff, students, and quality assurance bodies; and references. The introduction discusses the challenges facing higher education and how OER can help address issues of access, costs and quality. It emphasizes that OER have transformative potential if institutions invest in developing, adapting and using quality materials. The guidelines section provides specific, action-oriented suggestions for each stakeholder group to promote greater use and sharing of OER.
Kuidas siduda õppetööd ja hariduslikke disainiuuringuid?Hans Põldoja
This document summarizes Hans Põldoja's lecture on connecting learning activities and educational design research. Some key points:
- Põldoja discusses using learner-centered methods and openness as principles for connecting learning and research.
- He presents examples of blog-based online courses and their format, which includes a course blog, student personal blogs, and the use of Web 2.0 tools. Assignments are posted on the course blog and student homework on their personal blogs.
- Benefits of using blogs in learning include improving student self-expression, supporting peer collaboration, providing feedback opportunities, and motivating students. Challenges include fragmented discussions across blogs and a lack of management tools
eLearning – Opportunities And Challenges (Sln)Nigel Gibson
The document discusses opportunities and challenges of eLearning. It maps various issues around online learning provision and supporting learning online. Key points include defining common terms like blended learning; considering a spectrum of online learning approaches from fully online to fully face-to-face; examples of open content initiatives and how they can be used; the importance of connecting learners in various ways online; and how technologies are converging, providing more opportunities for online learning through various devices.
Beyond the Open Educational Resource move – towards Open and Participatory Le...Andreas Meiszner
Internet version of the presentation prepared for the
FKFT Free Knowledge, Free Technology
Education for a free information society
First International Conference, Barcelona July 15th to 17th 2008
Chapter 12 case study realising the vision of oergrainne
The document discusses two initiatives, Olnet and OPAL, that aim to address the lack of uptake and reuse of Open Educational Resources (OER) despite significant investments. Olnet is a partnership between universities that develops infrastructure and communities to support OER design, evaluation, and sharing of practices. It uses tools like CompendiumLD and Cloudworks to support an OER effectiveness lifecycle of select, design, use, and evaluate resources. OPAL also aims to enhance OER quality and innovation through various strategies, models, tools, and skills development. Both initiatives seek to provide guidance and foster the transfer of good practices to help teachers and learners effectively harness OER potential.
This document summarizes a keynote presentation about designing learning in an open world utilizing new technologies. It discusses how social media and open educational resources provide opportunities for collaboration and sharing of resources. However, learners and teachers lack digital literacy skills to make effective use of these tools. The document outlines a vision for the future of learning leveraging new technologies. It also discusses challenges, including a lack of skills and issues integrating new tools. The presentation focuses on strategies to address these challenges through research on open educational practices and designing learning experiences that effectively combine pedagogy and technology.
Pedagogical Practices, Personal Learning Environments and the Future of eLe...Rui Páscoa
This document discusses pedagogical practices in elearning and the influence of personal learning environments (PLEs). It summarizes interviews with two experts in the field, Graham Attwell and José Lagarto. They believe that elearning should adopt a mix of pedagogical models rather than a single approach. While PLEs are tools, they are also part of the learning process by providing learners autonomy and connections to knowledge networks. PLEs allow learners to personalize their tools and resources to support formal and informal lifelong learning.
Open Educational Resources in Aquaculture Education and TrainingJohn Bostock
The document discusses open educational resources (OER) in aquaculture education and training. It defines OER as teaching and learning materials in the public domain or released under an open license allowing free use and modification. While OER offer benefits like cost savings and quality improvements, there are also barriers to their widespread adoption. For aquaculture, the availability of OER is currently limited, though initiatives like the Aqua-tnet project have increased resources. Further developing OER in aquaculture could help educators and provide educational opportunities, but challenges around funding, copyright, and pedagogy remain.
This document discusses various massive open online courses (MOOCs) platforms and providers. It begins by defining a MOOC as an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web, using videos, readings, and problem sets along with interactive discussion forums. It notes that MOOCs are a recent development in distance education. It then discusses some key characteristics of MOOCs including being free, open to anyone with an internet connection, and having very large enrollments. The document goes on to summarize several major MOOC platforms including edX, Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy, and a proposed local platform called Knowbita. It provides brief overviews of their approaches, features, and
Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Content ManagementCSCJournals
The last few decades have witnessed development in new Web technologies and tools. The current iteration of the Web: Web 2.0 offers several components that facilitate the learning process. Online teaching and learning tools among others, is one such component. This new technology as manifested in wikis and blogs has gained recognition for their potential use in colleges and academic institutions. They are Web tools that can facilitate professor-student collaboration and student-student interaction and collaboration. They also provide a means of constructing and building knowledge. This article discusses the use of wikis and blogs as tools for teaching and learning. It also reports on the implementation of these technologies in an academic institution.
This document describes the design and implementation of a virtual classroom system. It discusses how traditional classroom teaching has limitations in terms of time and place constraints. A virtual classroom system was developed using PHP and MySQL to address these limitations. The system allows course materials to be presented online using multimedia and hypermedia, providing flexibility and interactivity for learning. It has modules for students to access course content, answer questions, check their performance, and participate in discussion forums. The system aims to enhance the learning experience by making it more flexible and available anywhere with an internet connection.
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR ONLINE LANGUAGE TEACHER TRAINING: CONCEPTUAL F...IJITE
This paper discusses a conceptual framework for the design of Open Educational Resources (OERs) for
online language teacher training including an example of practical implementation. The authors identify in
the principles of micro- and macro- learning, cognitive load theory and Threshold Concepts (TCs), the key
elements that lead to the creation of effective OERs designed for the Lilac Project which aims to support
language teachers in managing online learning environments. Data from questionnaires and focus groups
were utilised to establish a set of TCs connected to online language teaching. These were then crossreferenced with existing TCs, and utilised to create micro learning content that does not negatively impact
the cognitive load, but, at the same time, is positioned within a larger macro structure that allows for the
development of deeper knowledge and competences. The structure of Lilac OERs will be presented as a
practical example of how the potential of technologies to support learning can be embedded in online
contexts.
IRJET- Developing Online Pre-Induction Courses and E-Learning & E-Teachin...IRJET Journal
This document discusses developing online pre-induction courses (OPICs) and experiences with e-learning and e-teaching. It proposes a framework for OPICs as the primary component of a learning support structure for university students. OPICs aim to prepare students for higher education by providing information before their first term and introducing intellectual skills. The framework incorporates OPICs, induction, individual tutorials, and lectures/seminars. It emphasizes the benefits of blended learning and online learning, such as improved interactions and flexible learning opportunities. Communities of inquiry and educational technologies can also enhance learning in higher education.
This project implemented nine school repositories and one university-wide learning repository integrated within the university's virtual learning environment to support sharing and reuse of learning resources. The project aimed to increase deposit and usage of resources through establishing workflows for content creation and resource sharing. Key outcomes included developing a metadata schema and selection criteria for learning objects, as well as increasing strategic focus on repository provision as reflected in university policies and strategies. The project successfully implemented the technical infrastructure but did not develop an interface between the learning repository and institutional repository as originally planned.
The document describes a case study of an approach called Team Enhanced Creativity (TEC) for designing reusable learning objects (RLOs). TEC involves an iterative process where teaching staff, multimedia developers, and students collaborate in the design, development, and evaluation of RLOs. It outlines the background issues at London Metropolitan University that led to developing this approach, including a diverse student body with many mature, part-time learners. It then describes the 6 stages of TEC and provides an example of RLOs developed on study skills that were well-received by students and staff. The approach aims to better engage non-traditional students by integrating multimedia learning objects into the curriculum.
The document discusses how instructional blogging can be used as an effective e-learning tool in online and hybrid courses. It promotes interactivity, student-centered learning, and peer input. The author explains how blogging can be used as a knowledge-centered, learner-centered, and community-centered instructional tool. It allows for receptive, directive, and guided discovery learning techniques. Student responses were initially mixed but improved when blogging became mandatory and students were required to comment on each other's posts. Overall, blogging enhanced the online learning experience when integrated appropriately into the course pedagogy and curriculum.
Using Web Tools To Enhance Teaching & LearningNitza Hernandez
The document summarizes the use of blended learning and web 2.0 tools in a graduate course on information technologies. The instructor used a course blog, wiki, and videoconferencing to actively engage students and allow flexible access to course materials. Students strengthened research skills using various technologies and learned to communicate collaboratively online. Students reported satisfaction with the blended approach and recognized the value of internet tools for their professional development.
FORGE: Enhancing eLearning and research in ICT through remote experimentationFORGE project
EDUCON'14 Conference: This paper presents the FORGE initiative, which aims to transform the FIRE testbed facilities, already vital for European research, into a learning resource for higher education.
From an educational perspective this project aims at promoting the notion of \ac{srl} through the use of a federation of high-performance testbeds and at building unique learning paths based on the integration of a rich linked-data ontology.
Through FORGE, traditional online courses will be complemented with interactive laboratory courses.
It will also allow educators to efficiently create, use and re-use FIRE-based learning experiences through our tools and techniques. And, most importantly, FORGE will enable equity of access to the latest ICT systems and tools independent of location and at low cost, strengthening the culture of online experimentation tools and remote facilities.
How Moodle Facilitates E-learning? A Case Study in Vocational EducationIJSRED
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An Extensible Framework for Automatic Knowledge Extraction From Studen Blogs
1. International Journal on Integrating Technology in Education (IJITE) Vol.3, No.2, June 2014
DOI :10.5121/ijite.2014.3202 9
AN EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR AUTOMATIC
KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FROM STUDENT BLOGS
Dr Andy M. Connor and Matthew Martin and Sam Joe
Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
ABSTRACT
This article introduces a framework for automatically extracting knowledge from student blogs and
injecting it into a shared resource, namely a Wiki. This is motivated by the need to preserve knowledge
generated by students beyond their time of study. The framework is described in the context of the Bachelor
of Creative Technologies degree at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand where it is
being deployed alongside an existing blogging and ePortfolio process. The framework uses an extensible,
layered architecture that allows for incremental development of components in the system to enhance the
functionality over time. The current implementation is in beta-testing and uses simple heuristics in the core
components. This article presents a road map for extending the functionality to improve the quality of
knowledge extraction by introducing techniques from the artificial intelligence field.
KEYWORDS
Blogging, Wikis, Knowledge Extraction, Enhanced Learning
1.INTRODUCTION
Blogs (a shortened form of “Web-logs”) are essentially an electronic journal that allows an
individual to keep records of their thoughts and opinions by writing on a website. Such writings
are normally ordered chronologically and often constrained to a particular topic of a timely
nature. The writing of blogs (or “blogging”) dates back to the early 1990s with the term blog
becoming popular after the late 1990s. One typical characteristic of blogs is that they contain
selective content, often chronicling personal daily events or supporting contentious individual
views. At first glance, blogs do not seem to fit into shared knowledge acquisition framework,
however in recent years, the use of these electronic journals in education is increasing, giving rise
to the opportunity to combine peer learning approaches [1] with natural language processing
techniques [2] to create a shared knowledge base to enhance student learning.This paper outlines
an initial framework for the automatic extraction of knowledge from student blogs in the context
of the Bachelor of Creative Technologies degree at Auckland University of Technology.
2. RELATED LITERATURE
The development of new media channels has created an emerging potential for the utilisation of
innovative software and hardware in an educational setting. This has included smartphones,
laptops, podcasts, tablets, wireless systems and Web-based learning environments. Most recently,
however, there has been a growing interest on blogs, blogging and the use of Wiki based tools
[3].
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Ferdig & Tramell [4] provide an early perspective of the use of blogs in education as well as
some of the pedagogical arguments for deploy blogs as an educational tool. They suggest that
“Blogs are useful teaching and learning tools because they provide a space for students to reflect
and publish their thoughts and understandings. And because blogs can be commented on, they
provide opportunities for feedback and potential scaffolding of new ideas.” (pg. 2). They go on to
suggest a number of practical suggestions for implementing blogs as well as four advantages of
blogs supported by other literature, namely:
1. The use of blogs helps students become subject-matter experts.
2. The use of blogs increases student interest and ownership in learning.
3. The use of blogs gives students legitimate chances to participate.
4. The use of blogs provides opportunities for diverse perspectives, both within and outside
of the classroom.
Recent research has argued that the use of blogs can be beneficial to students in a wide range of
disciplines, including the health sciences [5], visual arts [6], computer science [7], engineering [8]
and science [9] to name but a few. Many of these studies implement blog based course
components that support claimed benefits discussed by Ferdig & Tramell [4]. Clearly there is
considerable interest in this area and much potential for individual students to enhance their
individual learning experience through the use of blogs, irrespective of the discipline
Many authors also suggest that collaborative learning can be augmented through the use of Wiki
based tools. For example, Coutinho & Bottentuit [10] suggest that learning can occur through
social interaction generated by the exchange and sharing of information and opinions among a
peer group in an online Wiki. Gruber [11] goes on to suggest that there are potential benefits from
combining the best ideas from the Social Web and the Semantic Web, therefore integrating the
ecosystem of participation associated with the former with the ecosystem of data associated with
the latter, where value is created by the integration of structured data from many sources. Boulos,
Maramba & Wheeler [12] also suggest that research could be undertaken to investigate the cross-
operability and integration emerging Web 2.0 applications, particularly Wikis, blogs and
podcasts, and their respective and synergistic contributions toward the enhancement of student
learning. They conclude their research by stating “Of particular importance is research into novel
integrative applications, to serve as the ‘glue’ to bind the different forms of Web-based
collaborationware synergistically in order to provide a coherent wholesome learning experience.”
Despite the identification of such potential and significant, most research to date seems to have
focused on the use of blogs and Wikis in parallel, rather than undertaking any formal integration
of the two. For example, Miyazoe & Anderson [13] examine the effectiveness of three different
online writing activities in formal university education: forums, blogs, and wikis. They note in
their work that few research studies have tested the simultaneous application of two or more
online writing tools in a single course and as such only cite four studies that do so [14-17]. Whilst
the scope of the research Miyazoe & Anderson [13] is limited to a single discipline, there is only
a small body of literature that deals with the simultaneously implementation of blogs and Wikis.
Chen, Cannon, Gabrio, Leifer, Toye & Bailey [14] outline an approach they call “Folio
Thinking”, an approach they describe as an instructional method grounded in the process of
students creating learning portfolios. They go on to suggest that the pedagogical approach is
designed to enhance self-awareness by enabling students to make their knowledge explicit and
visible for themselves as well as for others. In this study, the authors utilize the software Tikiwiki,
which claims to integrate blogs and Wikis. However, whilst these features exist in the software
they are still in part separate, which requires students to perform two separate processes – their
individual blogging and reflection as well as the construction of a shared knowledge base via the
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Wiki. Tighter integration of blogs and Wikis has the potential to streamline the creation of a
shared knowledge base and limit the possibility of lost knowledge that can occur when students
delete content from their blogs or when they graduate from the programme.
The next section outlines the role of blogs and Wikis in the Bachelor of Creative Technologies
(BCT) degree at Auckland University of Technology in the context of the philosophical
underpinnings of the degree programme. The approach is similar to the Folio Thinking approach
[14] but includes a flexible time-based progression that introduces new web-based tools at
different phases of progress.
3. THE BACHELOR OF CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
The Bachelor of Creative Technologies degree is offered by a unique academic unit at Auckland
University of Technology. The unit is Colab, the “collaboratory” for Design and Creative
Technologies that exists purely in the research-teaching nexus. The unit combines the traditional
academic structures associated with a School with the support and infrastructure of a Research
Institute. The goal of Colab is to encourage researchers, students and stakeholders to imagine,
construct, articulate and navigate rapidly changing social, economic, technological and career
environments1
. The Bachelor of Creative Technologies (BCT) is a key enabler of this goal.
Historically, Colab emerged as a result of the creation of a new Faculty at Auckland University of
Technology in 2005, where four existing Schools (Art & Design, Communications & Media
Studies, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, and Engineering) were combined under a single
umbrella. In 2007, the Faculty formed the Interdisciplinary Unit, a “virtual 5th school” to develop
new experimental alliances, research collaborations and learning experiences across these
overlapping disciplines. In 2012 the Interdisciplinary Unit was merged with a number of existing
research centres to form Colab.
The BCT was originally designed with a flexible and experimental curriculum that encouraged
the development of students as reflective practitioners. The curriculum was revised in 2013 to
formalize the learnings from delivering an experimental curriculum, and introduce new
innovations. In particular, the core of the degree was changed to introduce a formal research
methods component and options were introduced to allow students to undertake a research
practicum, essentially a research apprenticeship under the guidance of a research active member
of staff. The curriculum structure is based around a number of Studio and taught courses.
Students can then elect to take a number of subject courses which may also be selected from other
academic schools. The structure of the degree is shown in Figure 1.
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Figure 1. Structure of the Bachelor of Creative Technologies (BCT)
The current list of subject courses in the second (Level 6) and third year (Level 7) are shown in
Table 1, with elective papers being any course on offer throughout the University.
Table 1. Optional papers in the BCT
Year/Level Courses
2nd
(Level 6)
176002 Technology, Culture and Creative Practice; 176004 Entrepreneurship and
Innovation; CTEC 601 Synthetic Realities; CTEC 602 Interactive Technology and
Systems; CTEC 603 Digital Fabrication; CTEC 604 New Media Applications; CTEC
605 Creative Audio; CTEC 606 Experimental Imagery
3rd
(Level 7)
177006 Virtual and Immersive Environments; 177007 Intelligent Agents and
Environments; CTEC 700 Space, Image and Sound; CTEC 701 Mediated Performance;
CTEC 702 Emerging Practices; CTEC 703 Interaction and Play; CTEC 704 Transmedia
Narratives; CTEC 705 Creative Workflows; CTEC 706 Research Practicum I; CTEC
707 Research Practicum II
All of the courses offered as part of the BCT utilize web based collaborationware in terms of
delivery and assessment. The following section outlines the overall framework for deploying such
tools in the pedagogy of the degree.
3.1. The Role of the e-Portfolio
An e-Portfolio can be produced by a student for many reasons. One example is the simple
showcase of work in the digital sphere. Such e-Portfolios do not demonstrate the true value that
can be achieved by using an e-portfolio as collaborative, personalized learning space. Such an e-
175001 Creative
Technologies Studio
I (30pts)
175002 Introduction
to the Creative
Technologies (15pts)
175003 Programming
for Creativity (15pts)
175004 Creative
Technologies Studio
II (30pts)
175007 Physical
Computing (15pts)
Year
1
CTEC.500
Integrative Practice
(15pts)
177001 Creative
Technologies Studio
V (30pts)
Level 7 Creative
Technologies Subject
Paper (15pts)
Level 7 Creative
Technologies Subject
Paper (15pts)
177002 Creative
Technologies Studio
VI (30pts)
Elective Paper
(15pts)
Year3
Elective Paper
(15pts)
176001 Creative
Technologies Studio
III (30pts)
CTEC.600
Transdisciplinary
Inquiry (15pts)
Level 6 Creative
Technologies Subject
Paper (15pts)
176003 Creative
Technologies Studio
IV (30pts)
Elective Paper
(15pts)
Year
2
Elective Paper
(15pts)
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Portfolio can assist building the skills essential for students in higher education through a process
of generative learning. This learning approach involves incorporating existing knowledge with
new ideas based on experimentation and open-mindedness. From the educator’s perspective, the
e-Portfolio can also facilitate assessment and feedback and therefore is a mechanism by which a
developmental conversation is generated. Throughout the degree, students in the BCT develop an
ePortfolio that is intended to help them develop the skills of collection, selection and reflection
[18] that are required for students to take control of their own learning process.
Greenberg [19] argues that it can be helpful to think about ePortfolios in terms of when the work
is organized relative to when the work is created. He goes on to present a classification of three
types of ePortfolios:
1. The showcase ePortfolio: organization occurs after the work has been created.
2. The structured ePortfolio: a predefined organization exists for work that is yet to be
created.
3. The learning ePortfolio: organization of the work evolves as the work is created.
Building on this classification, the usual process of collection, selection and reflection is extended
to include an additional component of curation. The curation is a particular extraction of
information from the showcase ePortfolio to suit a particular assessment event. The emphasis of
the ePortfolio is that it contains an evolving body of work that is refined and repackaged to suit
any particularly purpose.
Recent research suggests that the development of an ePortfolio does not significantly increase the
cognitive load of Masters students [20], however there has been little research into the impact on
first year undergraduate students in this regard. However both anecdotal evidence and other
research suggest that the transition to University level education is a significant stressor for
students [21].To minimize the potential impact on cognitive load, the ePortolio process is
incrementally introduced to BCT students at different phases of their development.
3.2.Year 1: Blogs
Blogging is introduced in the first year of study to enhance education by encouraging reflective
practice. Beale [22] argues that blogging provides advantages in terms of social and pedagogical
perspectives. For example, the suggestion that blogging produces a sense of community amongst
the students because they can read and comment on other students postings, and can learn from
both experiences and from the insights of their peers is certainly borne out in practice. The role of
the blog is primarily to develop a reflective habit, however it stealthily introduces the process of
collection and selection. The former is driven by the need to provide relevant evidence of the
student’s research whilst the latter is implicit by making their work public. Beale [22] also argues
that the fact that students can see the sort of activities done by other students there is transparency
in terms of the amount of work that is required as well as the quality of work being produced.
Because others can also see their level of activity or inactivity, peer pressure should exert an
influence and encourage them to maintain a degree of selectivity in terms of how the students
present their work and their reflections.
3.3.Year 2: Portfolios
In their second year of the programme, students are introduced to the web development skills that
allow them to develop their own ePortfolio website. The ePortfolio complements the blogging
habit developed in the first year and encourages selectivity and discernment. In essence, the blog
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becomes a sandpit for experimentation from which successful elements are carried forward to the
ePortfolio.
3.4. Wiki
The use of a Wiki is a relatively new feature of the programme, motivated by the desire to not
lose knowledge as students progress through the programme and eventually graduate. When a
student graduates, the link to their blog is lost and even if it was retained there is little incentive
for current students to trawl through such blogs looking for particular knowledge embedded in a
blog.
The use of Wikis in student-centric learning is increasing and there examples of successful [23]
and unsuccessful [24] implementations in the literature, as well as studies that indicate some of
the barriers to success [25]. The Wiki system has not been used for a sufficiently prolonged
period of time to assert anything other than an anecdotal observation that the rate of content
creation is relatively low. This can be attributed to the fact that the content creation is an
additional task to be completed that is assessed. This observation is what motivates the work
currently being implanted to automatically create Wiki content as a result of the blogging process.
4.AUTOMATED KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION FRAMEWORK
The proposed framework for the automatic extraction of knowledge from student blogs is given
in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Automated Knowledge Extraction Framework
The blogs and the Wiki are elements that already exist in the learning framework for the BCT
degree, therefore only two components are required to complete the framework – the Blog
Crawler and the Knowledge Engine.
4.1.Blog Crawler
The Blog Crawler is a relatively simple component and has already been successfully
implemented in the prototype system, subject to some limitations in operation. The
implementation of this component has been relatively straightforward as a result of two factors.
The first of these factors is that all students are requested to use the same blogging platform
(currently Tumblr) which therefore only requires one API to extract the content of any given blog
in a structured format. The Tumblr API v1 easily allows the extraction of all content in an XML
format from within a PHP script. Reading Tumblr data is easily by the Blog Crawler as links to
all student blogs are collated on a simple HTML page. The Blog Crawler scans the HTML page
Blog Crawler
Knowledge Engine
Blogs
Wiki
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searching for text that implies a link to a Tumblr blog, which is in the format
http://studentblogtitle.tumblr.com, where “studentblogtitle” is the name of the Tumblr blog. The
content of the blog could then be fetched by creating an HTTP query in the form
http://studentblogtitle.tumblr.com/api/read which returns a structured XML version of the blog
content.
The second simplifying factor is achieved by imposing a process constraint on the blogging
behavior of the students. If a student wishes a blog entry to be considered for inclusion in the
Wiki, they are required to tag the blog post with only two tags. The first tag is “wiki” to indicate
to the Blog Crawler to extract a given post and the second is a free text tag that specifies the
subject of the post. This allows an alternative HTTP request to be formulated by adding GET
elements to only return blog posts the student is intending for inclusion in the Wiki. The HTTP
query is then in the form http://studentblogtitle.tumblr.com/api/read?tagged=wiki. The function
of the Blog Crawler is therefore very straightforward, it parses the XML to extract the date of
each post and the content of any posts dated since the last crawl are sent to the Knowledge Engine
as for processing.
The Blog Crawler script can be initiated manually or automatically scheduled on the server using
an appropriate mechanism, for example using cron on a linux based server. It is currently limited
to using Tumblr as a result of the specific API, however can in theory be extended to include
other blogging platforms. A more immediate concern is the use of the Tumblr v1 API which has
been superseded by V2, and the use of XML instead of the more lightweight JSON interface.
Work is currently in progress to translate the Blog Crawler functionality to use Tumblr v2 API
and JSON to improve performance.
4.2. Knowledge Engine
Within the overall framework for knowledge extraction a number of different models for the
Knowledge Engine can be conceived. The current implementation uses straightforward text
processing to inject content into the Wiki, however there is significant potential to enhance this
through the use of approaches such as natural language processing [2] or word disambiguation
[26] approaches that are common in information retrieval applications.
The current implementation of the Knowledge Engine is again relative simple and is based
around the automatic injection of material that students feel is relevant in their blogging process.
When the Knowledge Engine is fed a blog post from the Blog Crawler it queries the Wiki to
determine whether a page already exists with the title of the subject tag in the blog post. This is
again achieved by the formulation of an HTTP request of the form
http://wikiserver/w/api.php?action=query&titles=tagToSearchFor&format=xml. The returned
XML will have no values for pageid if no pages exist. If no such page exists, the Knowledge
Engine creates a new page using the Wiki XML-RPC interface and populates it with the content
of the blog post.
If a page with the same title already exists, the Knowledge Engine takes a pragmatic approach to
ensuring that the content of the original page is not compromised. The Knowledge Engine creates
a new page with a numeric suffix, again checking such a page does not exist and using an
incremental number if it does, and then injects the new page in to the Wiki. The Knowledge
Engine then injects content into each page to suggest that the full range of pages on the same
topic be combined. Such notices are common on large scale Wikis such as Wikipedia.
The current implementation has two main limitations. The first of these is that each page is
injected individually into Wiki by the Knowledge Engine as the Blog Crawler is running and
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sending data to it, which potentially slows down the process when many pages need to be created.
The second limitation is that the Knowledge Engine has no capacity to intelligently merge text
that relates to the same topic. The first of these limitations is being addressed by integrating the
MediaWiki Bulk Page Creator2
with the Knowledge Engine to allow offline structuring of the
data and the creation of new pages after the Blog Crawler has completed its latest crawl. The
resolving of best how to intelligently merge text in a coherent way is the focus of future research.
FURTHER RESEARCH
The current implementation of the Knowledge Engine is functional, but clearly limited in terms
of its ability to handle complex situations that arise with merging content that is duplicated or
overlapping.
The overall framework shown in Fig. 2 is an abstraction of the actual architecture of the system
that is based on a three layer model. This is a common model in computing systems where the
presentation, application processing, and data management functions are physically separated in
the software implementation. This allows each layer to be modified independently of the other
layers, provided the interface between layers remains consistent.
Future work will first focus on the Knowledge Engine layer to improve the ability to merge
documents in a meaningful way. This is a non-trivial task and will draw on previous work in the
areas of natural language generation [27], multiple document processing [28] and latent semantic
analysis [29].
In parallel to this a study will be designed to investigate the role the Wiki has in student
engagement and learning, potentially using similar measures to Hazri & North [23]. This will
allow the potential pedagogical value of the automated framework to be assessed against the
value of just the Wiki itself.
Both the blogs and the Wiki offer potential for similarity clustering and text mining [30] to
identify recurring themes. Similarly, there is potential to develop a more informed information
search strategy that allows students to identify appropriate material that may be either the Wiki or
the blogs using a contextual retrieval approach [31]. The potential value of a minable data
repository will be fully explored.
5.CONCLUSIONS
This paper has outlined the ePortfolio process for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Creative
Technologies degree at Auckland University. It has described the motivation for enhancing this
process through the addition of an automated extraction framework that allows a shared
knowledge base to be created with minimal overhead on behalf of the students. Progress to date
in terms of the creation of a simple Knowledge Engine has been discussed and directions for
further work have been identified.
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Authors
Dr Andy M. Connor obtained a Ph.D. in Mechatronics in 1996 from Liverpool John
Moores University in the United Kingdom. He is currently employed as a Senior
Lecturer in Colab, the interdisciplinary research/teaching nexus at Auckland
University of Technology (AUT) in Auckland, New Zealand. Prior to this he was a
Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer & Information Sciences at AUT as well as
being a Research Associate in the Engineering Design Centre at the University of
Cambridge and a Research Officer in the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Bath. His research
interests span Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Design Automation. Dr Andy M. Connor is
a Member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology.
Matt Martin obtained the Bachelor of Creative Technologies degree in 2013 from
Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. He is currently working towards
his Master of Creative Technologies degree at Auckland University of Technology
(AUT) in Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests relate to the role of
technology in terms of generating experience.
Sam Joe obtained the Bachelor of Creative Technologies degree in 2013 from
Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. He is currently working towards
his Master of Creative Technologies degree at Auckland University of Technology
(AUT) in Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests involve the creation of
collaborative workspaces using web technology in education.