Teaching Operations Research: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology

Navazio, Lisa; Romanin-Jacur, Giorgio; Baruah, Sanjoy; Murphy, Frederic H.

doi:10.1287/inte.28.2.104

Cited by 28 publications

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“…Taking into account previous research [7,16,18,19], we envision future work integrating the common sense engine into an instructional material editing tool, Cognitor [23], an authoring tool whose main objective is to support the teacher during the design and editing of instructional material to be delivered electronically.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Common Sense-Based On-Line Assistant for Training Employees

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Godói

Carvalho

et al. 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. We present a prototype of an on-line assistant to support a training course about workspace safety issues. The application uses a common sense reasoning engine and the Brazilian Open Mind common sense knowledge base, to make inferences about concepts that might be unfamiliar to the students. We explore the use of metaphors and analogies to explain topics, enhancing learning by using similarities to help students associate related topics. We believe that common sense can be used to take into account cultural considerations while helping learners to build analogies. A survey of students showed that they considered analogies useful in the learning process, that the system was helpful in understanding new concepts, and that it helped connect the information searched for with common sense knowledge.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is often possible to find metaphors and analogies in common sense knowledge bases [15] and, according to Liebman [16] and Neris et al [18,19], these elements can be used as a stimulus to activate the use of cognitive strategies by the learner.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Common Sense-Based On-Line Assistant for Training Employees

Anacleto

Godói

Carvalho

et al. 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…It is important to point out that acting in this way the instructor is promoting active learning, since learners are supposed to be able to change incorrect or incomplete assumptions they may have. This is, according to Liebman [3] below, one of the main characteristics of active learning.…”

Section: Using Common Sense To Aid the Learning Processmentioning

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Applying common sense to distance learning

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Carvalho

Neris

et al. 2006

Proceedings of VII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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One of the challenges of Distance Learning (DL) over the Web is that it imposes physical distance between teachers and students, and thus reduces opportunities for teachers to fully understand the state of student knowledge and adapt instructional material to their needs. While the knowledge to be taught is usually well expressed in the curriculum material, the knowledge of a typical student is harder to codify. In this paper, it is shown how a large knowledge base of common sense statements can be used to help model student knowledge and consequently to help teachers plan learning actions by • Identifying topics that need coverage by the curriculum;• Identifying what a student is already likely to know;• Locating possible misconceptions that need to be corrected; and• Assuring that the student understands the vocabulary needed to express relevant subject material.

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“…The Strategies presented in their work and used successfully by Liebman [10] are: organizing (called chunking in the cognitive psychology literature), framing, concept mapping, metaphors and analogies, rehearsals, and advance organizers.…”

Section: Cognitive Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For this work, we adopted the Cognitive Strategies Liebman [10] has been using. This decision was taken after analyzing all the strategies cited above and realizing that Liebman's group reflects many of the others strategies studied.…”

Section: Cognitive Strategiesmentioning

confidence: 99%