e-Procura

Mediation System based on semantic technologiesto make personalized searches for courses

E-Procura: Searching for courses (the easy way)

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What is CESGA?

- Located in Santiago de Compostela (Spain)- R+D in computational sciences- Resource centre for researchers in Spain / Europe

Supercomputing Center of Galicia (CESGA)

http://www.cesga.es

Why this project?

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Students must access each training institution web page and do the search manually (where this information canbe scattered in several subsections), and most times it ends in little useful information being retrieved...

What happens if we want to look for a training course online?

e-Procura project allows to simplify this process and give access to the course information from the three galician universities (more to come!) by accessing just one interface.

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The main purpose of the project is to develop a tool that allows easy & personalized access to course informationfor potential students in a centralized repository that is automatically synchronized with the information from each institution website.

For training institutions

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Current situation

User Access

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- Unregistered users: The search engine will allow all users to filter results by term and university or other parameters: cost, distance, schedule...

- Registered users: They get personalized results fullyadapted to their profile. In this case, their profile in eProcuraSearch engine will save their preferences like (maximum cost, knowledge areas of interest, free schedule, etc...And apply them in all their searches, even offering suggestions.

Global vision

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Procura de cursos

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Data management

Course info can be updated in two ways:

Automatic way: courses will be obtained automatically from the universities databases once a day, so info is updated.

Manually: There is also an interface on the application to insert courses information

Eprocura is designed to integrate data from multiple sources,

To do this we need to know the way of how each university store their courses and the method they use to publish them.

Global vision

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Automatic course insertion

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Advantages

For the universities

- Creation of a centralized repository in which they can publish their training offer at national & internationalLevels (multilingual interface)

- Integration of their training offer into EuropeanLevel repositories by counting with standard descriptions.(ARIADNE, EducaNext, LRE...)

- Support the adjustment between the universities training offer and the actual market demands.

Advantages

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- Access to public information about courses that can be reused by universities applications or evenother institutions and/or search engines that want todo searches about this information.

- Link to these universities courses information with additional public information present on the web (i.e. teaching place location on Google Maps, or access to information on Wikipedia)

For the universities (II)

Advantages

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For students

- Obtaining personalized learning paths based on alearning objective specified on a set of competences the student desires to obtain or a precise training to access a certain professional profile.

- Better control of his/her learning path.

Expected results

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How it looks like?

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How it looks like?

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Thanks for your attention!

Any questions?

Jos Manuel Abun,Maria R. Malmierca E-Learning departmentSupercomputing center of Galiciae-learning@cesga.es

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