Online Communities, Critiques and Second Life Teaching in the Visual Arts

Miiller, Susan; Cohen, Annette; Smith, Linda J.

doi:10.5296/ire.v1i1.4295

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“…Recent research has argued that the use of blogs can be beneficial to students in a wide range of disciplines, including the health sciences [5], visual arts [6], computer science [7], engineering [8] and science [9] to name but a few. Many of these studies implement blog based course components that support claimed benefits discussed by Ferdig & Tramell [4].…”

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An Extensible Framework for Automatic Knowledge Extraction From Studen Blogs

Connor¹,

Martin²,

Joe³

2014

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This article introduces a framework for automatically extracting knowledge from student blogs and injecting it into a shared resource, namely a Wiki. This is motivated by the need to preserve knowledge generated by students beyond their time of study. The framework is described in the context of the Bachelor of Creative Technologies degree at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand where it is being deployed alongside an existing blogging and ePortfolio process. The framework uses an extensible, layered architecture that allows for incremental development of components in the system to enhance the functionality over time. The current implementation is in beta-testing and uses simple heuristics in the core components. This article presents a road map for extending the functionality to improve the quality of knowledge extraction by introducing techniques from the artificial intelligence field.

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