Authors:
Marco Mesiti
;
Stefano Valtolina
;
Simone Bassis
;
Francesco Epifania
and
Bruno Apolloni
Affiliation:
University of Milano, Italy
Keyword(s):
Social Networks, Materials’ Quality and Reuse, User Reputation, Gamification, Recommendation System.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Authoring Tools and Content Development
;
Community Building
;
Computer-Supported Education
;
Course Design and e-Learning Curriculae
;
Domain Applications and Case Studies
;
e-Learning
;
e-Learning Platforms
;
Game-Based and Simulation-Based Learning
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Intelligent Learning and Teaching Systems
;
International Partnerships in Teaching
;
Learning/Teaching Methodologies and Assessment
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Social Context and Learning Environments
;
Web 2.0 and Social Computing for Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Abstract:
With the ambition of providing teachers with a concrete tool for worldwide exploiting didactic contents to feature their courses, we face the problem of creating a social platform with adequate functionalities to satisfy the teacher expectations. Starting with a well designed architecture we endow it with three key functionalities
that become the stakeholders of the emerging social network: 1) a quality system ensuring the value of the materials the users put in the platform repository as their contribution to the social business, 2) a recommender system based on computational intelligence techniques constituting the principal tool to guide teachers along the assembling of materials into courses, and 3) a gamification system, root of the no-profit business plan of the platform, to involve teachers in the social network. As a result we delineate an ecosystem where teachers exploit contents of a repository to which contribute by themselves. They are encouraged in exploiting and contrib
uting because the contents are of high quality; they are wisely assisted in the exploration of the repository by platform services yet under their full control; and they are variously reworded by this involvement.
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