Learning activities on health care supported by common sense knowledge

2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Dias

et al. 2009

Self Cite

Abstract-This paper presents Cognitor, a common-sense aided framework for the Cog-Learn Pattern Language that aims to help content editors create and contextualize e-learning content through the generation of hyper documents that comprise pedagogical issues, producing learning objects (LO) compatible with the SCORM standard. Cog-Learn have been developed from Learning and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Theories. The goal of Cognitor is to allow for the design of digital learning material with better organization of the content that will be explored by learners, aiming to make easier the interaction with it, addressing HCI issues, as well as the interaction between learners and teachers, addressing Human-Human Interaction (HHI) issues. To reach that, it is important that the LO created in Cognitor be easy to reuse, helping creators to fill out the metadata aiming at addressing cultural issues related to the context in which the LO can be adopted and reused. For that, suggestions coming from a common sense knowledge base automatically appear in some SCORM metadata fields in order to help the task of filling out culturally contextualized metadata.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Filling out learning object metadata considering cultural contextualization

Buzatto

2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Dias

et al. 2009

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“…This feature was incorporated in OMCS-Br since it is known that common sense varies from group to group of people, inserted in different cultural context [1][2] [13]. The profile parameters which can be used to filter the knowledge from the knowledge base and to generate different ConceptNets are: age, gender, level of education and geographical location (city and state where volunteer are from).…”

Section: B Knowledge Representationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, through common sense knowledge analysis, educators can know how their learners talk about themes which are going to be taught, so that they can decide on how to approach those themes during the learning process [2]. Also, if educators have to prepare learners on how to deal with a certain community, they can access the community's common sense and prepare their learners to interact with that group [1]. Furthermore educators can use common sense knowledge to elaborate contextualized learning content which can be presented in several forms to learners, varying from a hyper document [10] to a card of an educational quiz game [11].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Common sense-based applications to advance personalized learning

2008 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Carvalho

Ferreira

et al. 2008

Learning process varies according to learners' profiles and cultural contexts in which they are inserted. In order to provide effective learning, educators should contextualize the learning process to their learners' needs from the planning of learning activities, i.e. a group of tasks with educational purpose, to the elaboration of learning content that they will use. This is a way to provide personalized learning to different groups of learners, one of the grand challenges for engineering research in the 21 st century. This paper proposes the use of common sense knowledge for developing computer applications to support educators in contextualizing the learning process to their learners' reality by the analysis of common sense knowledge collected from people with the same profile of the learners. It presents the solutions of OMCS-Br for collecting and using common sense knowledge into computer applications and three educational applications developed for the purpose of helping educators with personalized learning.

“…In its first phase, it was developed a set of DL tools for the LMS and it was played several learning activities on it in order to perform a proof of concept (TIDIA, 2008). One of the learning activities played on the environment was the learning activity "Guaranteeing the continuity of home caring a sick person", which was planned by professors from the Nursing Department of the Federal University of São Carlos in the context of a case study whose main goal was to illustrate the possible usages for common sense knowledge to support learning activity planning (Carvalho et al, 2007;Carvalho et al, 2008).…”

Section: Learning Activity On Tidia-ae Lms -A Case Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of Usability Criteria on Learning Management Systems: Lessons Learned

Carvalho

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

2008

This paper points to the importance of guaranteeing usability in Learning Management Systems (LMS) in order to achieve success in performing learning tasks in this kind of environment. The paper presents the results from a case study in which learners had to perform several learning tasks on the TIDIA-Ae LMS. It is presented usability problems observed during the performance of the case study learning tasks, as well as the difficulties that learners faced with in some tasks due to those problems and the actions taken in order to make viable the execution of the learning activity tasks. By this paper, it is intended (i) to call LMS developers' attention to the importance of usability in the development of tools to support the learning process; (ii) to point to interactive problems which should be avoided in LMS systems and (iii) to show some problems which can appear during a learning activity execution supported by computer and possible ways to deal with them.