Title :
IKHarvester - Informal eLearning with Semantic Web Harvesting
Author :
Jankowski, Jacek ; Westerski, Adam ; Kruk, Sebastian Ryszard ; Nagle, Tadhg ; Dobrzanski, Jaros Aw
Author_Institution :
Digital Enterprise Res. Inst., NUI, Galway
Abstract :
Only recently, researchers and practitioners alike have begun to fully understand the potential of eLearning and have concentrated on new tools and technologies for creating, capturing and distributing knowledge. In order to support and extend those solutions we propose the idea of incorporating the informal knowledge into Learning Management Systems. Contributing to the body of research, problems of existing eLearning technologies are documented highlighting areas of definite improvement. Finally, semantic Web harvesting technology as a solution is explored in the form of the knowledge acquisition tool called IKHarvester.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; knowledge acquisition; semantic Web; IKHarvester; informal eLearning technology; informal knowledge; knowledge acquisition; learning management system; semantic Web harvesting; Blogs; Collaboration; Distributed computing; Electronic learning; Feedback; Internet; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge management; Least squares approximation; Semantic Web; Harvesting; Semantic Web; eLearning;
Conference_Titel :
Semantic Computing, 2008 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3279-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3279-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSC.2008.47