Reusing Collaborative Knowledge as Learning Objects - The Implementation and Evaluation of AnnForum

Date: 20th september 2008
Publisher: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN: 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
ISBN: 978-3-540-87604-5
Authors: Weiqin Chen and Richard Persen

Abstract:
With the development and adoption of digital technologies in learning, there is an increasingly large amount of learner-generated material being stored or recorded. This learner-generated material could contain important learning resources. This paper presents our research in reusing collaborative knowledge generated in a knowledge building process as learning objects. We describe the implementation and evaluation of AnnForum - a system which can dynamically annotate and classify collaborative knowledge and detect messages which are relevant to current discussion topics and present them to the learners. With the help of AnnForum, a new knowledge building process can be built, based upon previous accumulated knowledge instead of starting from scratch.

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