bringing teachers, students and learning resources contextually closer
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Traditionally, classrooms have been the major channels of interaction between teachers and students. With the advancements in internet, social media and mobile technologies, learning environments are becoming more enriched with sophisticated interaction and a wealth of online learning material. While this offers a range of improvements, it is posing a set of challenges for educators to accommodate such changes to the benefit of their students. One particular problem is that current teachers are not well equipped with tools to guide students towards the discovery of learning material relevant to the context of their course. For example while it is easy in a classroom to discuss how a video connects to a topic or learning activity within a course, it is much harder to infer such cognitive connections in an online environment. We believe that one of the major bottlenecks is the lack of explicit context alignment between teachers, students and learning resources. We propose using semantic technologies to elicit the contexts in learning environments, and provide the means for teachers to better orchestrate the delivery of their learning concepts in classrooms. We discuss in this seminar a plan to build semantic graphs (i.e. knowledge graphs or maps) to connect existing courses, learning material and other entities involved in leaning environments. This work contributes to enhancing personalized learning, and empowering educators to have better control over learning resources to support their teaching duties.TRANSCRIPT
BRINGING TEACHERS, STUDENTS AND LEARNING RESOURCES CONTEXTUALLY CLOSER
Fouad Zablith
Olayan School of Business
American University of Beirut
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How can we explicitly link resources to our learning objectives?
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Problem• It is getting harder for teachers to direct their students to
resources relevant to their learning and course objectives due to:
• Shift from offline, to blended or purely online environments• Continuous increase in online material making it hard for teachers
to keep up• Lack of explicit context alignment between resources, learning
objectives, students and teachers
Online Tool Example• Mainly used as a
sharing platform
• Connections to the learning concepts are hard
• Flat design approach
• Courses are created in isolation
Proposed Solution• Eliciting the context of courses and learning resources to
better align them with teachers and students
• Instead of handling a course as a block and replicating this in online environments, we propose using conceptually connected graphs to support our learning objectives
• Engage teachers and students in transparently building the conceptual graphs throughout their learning involvement
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Introduction to Semantic Technologies
• The Semantic Web and Linked Data aim to create meaningful connections and links at the data level
• Publishing information follows well defined rules such as reusing existing resources, fixed references (URIs), choosing the right vocabulary, etc.
• Existing vocabularies are available (e.g. in the academic domain) to be commonly reused by information publishers, to enable seamless information exchange
“Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/”
Governments
Universities
References
Bibliography
And many more!
Are we there yet?
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Information
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Linked Data Lucero Statistics
Entity Type Number of InstancesCourses 580Research Publications 16,000Video Podcasts 2,200Audio Podcasts 1,500Open Educational Resources 640YouTube Videos 900University Buildings 100Library Catalogue Books 12,000
Some Outputs
ConnectingLearning Material
Research Output Analytics
New Delivery Channels Geo Connections
Crafting Personal Semantic Graphs• While automation is good for existing structured
information, it has limitations when concepts are embedded in the content, and at the level of personalizing learning experiences and resources
• In addition to automation, we need to engage teachers to semantically graph the delivery of their courses in their personal classrooms, enriched with learning resources that can be seamlessly added to the graph
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Additional Requirements• Study the deployment of semantic sharing techniques that
can be integrated in existing applications
• Support users in picking and linking to relevant areas of the semantic graphs
• Devise mechanisms to channel and adapt content based on specific learning contexts
• Secure the appropriate centralized platform to serve linked content
Advantages
Breaking Courses Isolation
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Sharing• Enhancing connections between educators and improving
social engagement
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Sharing• Enhancing connections between educators and improving
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Retaining Knowledge
Further Potential Use Cases
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Conclusions and Research Directions• Semantic technologies can potentially contribute to:
• Better support educators in directing learning content• Deliver more personalized and adaptive learning experiences• Move from isolated courses and degree delivery, to a richer and
linked educational program
• Our future research directions include:• Analyzing the impact of semantic technologies on courses delivery
in classrooms• Evaluating the enhancements in content discovery within learning
environments• Investigate the assessment of students on learning concepts,
rather than on course-based evaluations
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Watch this space
Thank youhttp://fouad.zablith.org
@fzablith
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