Abstract
In a Lifelong Learning context, learners often rely on informal learning materials to access and process information. There is a growing interest in accessing educational material on the social web. We have created a system that facilitates learners and tutors in accessing informal knowledge sources in the context of a learning task and describe the results of a summative and formative evaluation of this system. The system consists of a knowledge discovery component and a social learning component. The evaluation shows that with our system informal resources can successfully enhance the learning process within a Lifelong Learning context. The knowledge discovery component assists the learner in identifying relevant concepts, discovering relations between concepts, and mastering the correct vocabulary. In addition the social learning component offers relevant and trusted documents and contacts on the basis of a learner’s social network.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ullrich, C., Borau, K., Luo, H., Tan, X., Shen, L., Shen, R.: Why web 2.0 is good for learning and for research. In: Proceeding of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW 2008, p. 705. ACM Press, New York (2008)
Wild, F., Mödritscher, F., Sigurdarson, S.: Designing for Change: Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments. eLearning Papers 9, 1–15 (2008)
Drachsler, H., Rutledge, L., Van Rosmalen, P., Hummel, H., Pecceu, D., Arts, T., Hutten, E., Koper, R.: ReMashed - An Usability Study of a Recommender System for Mash-Ups for Learning. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 5(S1), 1–8 (2010)
Stahl, G.: Group Cognition: Computer Support for Collaborative Knowledge Building. The MIT Press, Cambridge (2006)
Vygotsky, L.: Mind and society: The development of higher mental processes. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (1978)
Lave, J., Wenger, E.: Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1991)
Bakhtin, M., Emerson, C., Holquist, M.: Speech genres and other late essays. University of Texas Press, Austin (1986)
Kuiper, E., Volman, M., Terwel, J.: Students’ use of web literacy skills and strategies: Searching, reading and evaluating web information. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal 13(3), 13–13 (2008)
Monachesi, P., Simov, K., Mossel, E., Osenova, P., Lemnitzer, L.: What ontologies can do for eLearning. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning, IMCL 2008. (2008)
Auer, S., Bizer, C., Kobilarov, G., Lehmann, J., Cyganiak, R., Ives, Z.: Dbpedia: A nucleus for a web of open data. In: The Semantic Web, pp. 722–735 (2008)
Monachesi, P., Markus, T.: Using social media for ontology enrichment. In: The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. Springer, Heidelberg (2010) (in press)
Monachesi, P., Markus, T.: Socially driven ontology enrichment for eLearning. In: Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2010 (2010) (in press)
Monachesi, P., Markus, T., Mossel, E.: Ontology enrichment with social tags for elearning. In: Cress, U., Dimitrova, V., Specht, M. (eds.) EC-TEL 2009. LNCS, vol. 5794, pp. 385–390. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)
Posea, V.: Bringing the Social Semantic Web to the Personal Learning Environment. In: Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (2010)
Hotho, A., Jäschke, R., Schmitz, C., Stumme, G.: Information Retrieval in Folksonomies: Search and Ranking. In: Sure, Y., Domingue, J. (eds.) ESWC 2006. LNCS, vol. 4011, pp. 411–426. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Westerhout, E., Monachesi, P., Markus, T., Posea, V. (2010). Enhancing the Learning Process: Qualitative Validation of an Informal Learning Support System Consisting of a Knowledge Discovery and a Social Learning Component. In: Wolpers, M., Kirschner, P.A., Scheffel, M., Lindstaedt, S., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. EC-TEL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16020-2_25
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16020-2_25
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-16019-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-16020-2
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)