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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) potentially challenge the traditional dominance of brick and mortar institutions as providers of quality higher education. The benefits for students include reduced education costs and global access to exclusive institution courses and instructors. However, the benefits for institutions are less clear as there is a financial overhead required to develop and deliver...
This paper demonstrates how sentiment analysis can be used to identify differences in how students and staff perceive the opinions contained in feedback for programming work. The feedback considered in this paper is conceptually different in that it is given in the form of tags that when associated with a fragment of source code can be considered as a sharable learning resource. The research presented...
The work presented in this paper aims to break the conventional view of Web browsing as an individual learning activity by leveraging the notion of collaborative browsing. An ontology based approach is proposed to automatically link users on the Web who have similar or related browsing interests. The novelty of the approach lies in the fact that it utilizes not only the similarity between userspsila...
This paper presents Knowledge Puzzle, a tool for knowledge construction from the Web. Its main contribution to Web-based learning is the adaptation of information structure on the Web to cope with the interlinked knowledge structure in the learnerpsilas mind. Self-directed learners will be able to adapt the path of instruction on the Web to their way of thinking, regardless of how the Web content...
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