Finding Open Educational Resources in Computing

Author

Dicheva, Darina ; Dichev, Christo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Winston Salem State Univ., Winston Salem, NC, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 July 2014

Firstpage

22

Lastpage

24

Abstract

The CS OER Portal was created with the goal of improving the find ability and increasing the use of open educational resources in Computer Science. In this paper we describe the portal´s design principles which exploit the domain specificity of the hosted content and are focused on enhancing the search and navigation in the portal. Distinctive retrieval features are the proposed topical recommendation and query-by-navigation. The latter allows users to formulate queries by walking through a directory-like structure based on the ACM/IEEE CS Curriculum Recommendation.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; open systems; portals; query formulation; ACM-IEEE CS curriculum recommendation; CS OER portal; computer science; directory-like structure; distinctive retrieval features; open educational resources; portal design principles; query formulation; query-by-navigation; Computer science; Materials; Navigation; Portals; Search engines; Standards; Vectors; OER; computer science education; information retrieval; open educational resources; search;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2014.17

Filename

6901387