Automatic Generation of SKOS Taxonomies for Generating Topic-Based User Interfaces in MOOCs

Maio, Carmen De; Loia, Vincenzo; Mangione, Giuseppina Rita; Orciuoli, Francesco

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_32

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“…De Maio et al [47] also believe that learners' engagement with the video lecture materials in MOOCs as passive. To improve learners' engagement with MOOCs, the authors propose a methodology to support learners to navigate the fragments of one or more videos lectures so that learners could connect their goals and prior knowledge with the key concept of the lectures.…”

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Personalisation in MOOCs: A Critical Literature Review

Sunar

Abdullah

White

et al. 2016

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The advent and rise of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have brought many issues to the area of educational technology. Researchers in the field have been addressing these issues such as pedagogical quality of MOOCs, high attrition rates, and sustainability of MOOCs. However, MOOCs personalisation has not been subject of the wide discussions around MOOCs. This paper presents a critical literature survey and analysis of the available literature on personalisation in MOOCs to identify the needs, the current states and efforts to personalise learning in MOOCs. The findings illustrate that there is a growing attention to personalisation to improve learners' individual learning experiences in MOOCs. In order to implement personalised services, personalised learning path, personalised assessment and feedback, personalised forum thread and recommendation service for related learning materials or learning tasks are commonly applied.

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Section: Category 2: Proposalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personalisation in MOOCs: A Critical Literature Review

Sunar

Abdullah

White

et al. 2016

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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“…De Maio et al (2014) believe that learners' engagement with the video lecture materials in MOOCs as passive. To improve learners' engagement with MOOCs, the authors propose a methodology to support learners to navigate the fragments of one or more videos lectures so that learners could connect their goals and prior knowledge with the key concept of the lectures.…”

Section: Proposalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personalisation of MOOCs - The State of the Art

Sunar

Abdullah

White

et al. 2015

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education

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Abstract:Researchers in the field of educational technology are paying huge attention to the widespread adoption of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the study of learning online. MOOCs are discussed in many angles including pedagogy, learning sustainability, and business model. However, there are very few discussions around MOOCs personalisation. In this paper, it is aimed to examine and analyse the literature on personalisation of MOOCs to identify the needs, the current states and efforts to personalise learning in MOOCs. The findings denote that the pedagogical design of MOOCs is currently insufficient due to massive and geographically dispersed learners with diverse educational backgrounds, learning requirements and motivations. Many believe that personalisation could address this lacking in MOOCs. Among the most popular services being proposed or implemented in the literature are personalised learning path, personalised assessment and feedback, personalised forum thread and recommendation service for related learning materials or learning tasks.

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“…In the proposed approach, the competence model, which deals with Knowledge (K), Skills (S) and Attitudes (A), shortly indicated as KSA Model [13], has been realized via lightweight ontologies, similar to taxonomies [5] and implemented in SKOS language [8], [26]. Such ontologies allow the description of a particular domain in a hierarchical way and define simple semantic relations.…”

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“…The organograms of Public Administrations and job descriptions of work profiles are analyzed. A competence model [25], based on Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (KSA), similar to taxonomies [5] and implemented in SKOS language [8], [26], is constructed for each job description and integrated with other characteristics, producing a description of the ideal competences which the employee, occupying the post related to that job description, should possess. On the other hand, a parser allows extracting the competences of employees from their curricula vitae according to the ISFOL-ISTAT 1 KSA model.…”

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Improvements of Decision Support Systems for Public Administrations via a mechanism of co-creation of value.

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Bassano

D’Aniello

et al. 2015

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Abstract. This paper focuses on a possible improvement of knowledge-based decision support systems for human resource management within Public Administrations, using a co-creation of value's mechanism, according to the Service-Dominant Logic (SDL) paradigm. In particular, it applies ontologydriven data entry procedures to trigger the cooperation between the Public Administration itself and its employees. Advantages in such sense are evident: constraining the data entry process by means of the term definition ontology improves the quality of gathered data, thus reducing potential mismatching problems and allowing a suitable skill gap analysis among real and ideal workers competence profiles. The procedure foresees the following steps: analyzing organograms and job descriptions; modelling Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes (KSA) for job descriptions; transforming KSAs of job descriptions into a standard-based model with integrations of other characteristics; extracting information from Curricula Vitae according to the selected model; comparing profiles and roles played by the employees. The 'a priori' ontology-driven approach adequately supports the operations that involve both the Public Administration and employees, as for the data storage of job descriptions and curricula vitae. The comparison step is useful to understand if employees perform roles that are coherent with their own professional profiles. The proposed approach has been experimented on a small test case and the results show that its objective evaluation represents an improvement for a decision support system for the re-organization of Italian Public Administrations where, unfortunately often, people are engaged in activities that are not so close to their competences.

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Automatic Generation of SKOS Taxonomies for Generating Topic-Based User Interfaces in MOOCs

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Personalisation in MOOCs: A Critical Literature Review

Personalisation in MOOCs: A Critical Literature Review

Personalisation of MOOCs - The State of the Art

Improvements of Decision Support Systems for Public Administrations via a mechanism of co-creation of value.

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