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Open educational resources are a key instrument in the promotion of learning and social appropriation of knowledge in the digital world. Providing access to existing learning resources in a way that teachers, students and parents are able to discover, acquire, discuss and adapt them to their own learning scenarios will also promote the development of values and attitudes that play a fundamental role...
The Community Question Answer (CQA) service is a typical forum of Web 2.0 that shares knowledge among people. There are thousands of questions that are posted and solved every day. Because of the various users of the CQA service, question search and ranking are the most important topics of research in the CQA portal. In this study, we addressed the problem of identifying questions as being hard or...
This is a concept paper looking into how Google's worldwide augmented reality game called Ingress could be used to inform the development of learning from games. Ingress is Google's attempt in creating a game based on augmented reality of actual physical locations where a story line is set to guide two different factions of agents to move around geographical locations with mobile devices to capture...
Modern educational approaches and the widespread use of new technologies, as well as the adoption of social software services in our daily lives, require new e-education approaches. Web 2.0 technologies and services represent promising learning tools that support information sharing, communication, networking and collaboration, which transcend time and space, linking individuals in various and vast...
Next generation research works across institutional boundaries, disciplines, even across language and culture. Grid and repository technologies both address these requirements, yet, they have - up to now - developed largely isolated from each other. The grid and the repository community can benefit greatly from a convergence of their respective technologies towards an integrated content- and context-aware...
CReSIS is a science and technology center with the mission of developing new technologies and computer models to measure and predict the response of sea level change to the mass balance of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. This workshop includes an introduction to the ice, ice, baby lessons and activities designed for K-8 and introduce teachers to the K-12 data portal which offers both data...
Semantic web services have received a significant amount of research attention in the last years but too little effort has been put into the evaluation of the approaches so far. The main blocker of thorough evaluations is the lack of large and diverse test collections for semantic web services. In this demo we present a portal designed to help working towards common test collections by making it easy...
This paper presents a 5-years experience in a Knowledge Management Program in an energy sector company, characterized by geographical dispersion, different languages and cultures, standard processes, decentralized organization and high impact of technical knowledge. The approach is based on communities of practice (CoP). During this period a team has worked to facilitate and promote the exchange of...
In 2005 the IEEE Board of Directors authorized a new initiative entitled "Launching Our Children's Path to Engineering." The initiative aimed to redefine, expand and institutionalize IEEE activities aimed to increase the propensity of young people to choose engineering as a career path. Two years later, the IEEE is administering - in cooperation with IBM and the New York Hall of Science...
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