Weaving a Knowledege Web with Technology

Project Title

Weaving a Knowledege Web with Technology

Project Leader

Dr Brahim Bensaou and Dr Cindy Xin Li

School / Dept

SENG / CSE

Project Duration

Jan 2016 - Jun 2017

Project Description

The project aims to implement the integrated web portal and software that enable the interconnection of teaching material around the knowledge points. Hub nodes in the knowledge web are knowledge points, and they are all cross-referenced with satellite nodes of related teaching materials. The tool will also further facilitate personalized teaching by allowing instructors to track statistically the knowledge points that seems to be the most difficult to comprehend. It will also provide an enhanced interactive learning community.

Project Outcome

The deliverables (mainly in software online portal formats) that were achieved so far sets its target user as course instructors, and provides them with a set of modules including:

- Asset management: essentially an online file system allowing the management of course related files

- Snippet management: allows segmenting and tagging teaching materials, assoicating them with knowledge points. A single set of note, or lecture video can contain multiple tags

- Knowledge graph builder: allows creating, deleting, and viewing a list of knowledge points for a course. It works with the previous two to associate tagged teaching materials to knowledge points. It weaves a virtual knowledge web

- Personalized teaching tool: Once the knowledge web is created, instructor can create pre-defined 'threads' in the knowledge web to guide students to learn and review certain sets of course materials on a personal need. It is still in its trial stage, since this tool needs to work with the student portal

Status

Completed

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