Edu-AREATowards the Recognition of Relevance and

Reputation in Edu-AREA

Manuel Caeiro Rodríguez, Martín Llamas Nistal, Juan Manuel Santos Gago

Universidade Vigo

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About TELGaliciaTELGalicia: Technology Enhanced Learning in Galicia

Heterogeneous research groups:

✓ Pedagogical side: learning materials, competencies, learning profiles, advertisement, psychology, etc.

✓ Technological side: TEL systems, TEL standards, recommendations, natural language processing, etc.

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TELGalicia Goals

Contribute to teaching innovationFrom technology:

✓Content: video, simulation, games, etc.

✓Devices: tablets, computers, interactive whiteboards, etc.

✓Applications: editors, mapping, communication, collaboration, etc.

From pedagogy:

✓ Collaborative.

✓ Cooperative.

✓ Problem-based.

✓ Project-based.

✓ Flipped classroom.

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Proposal: Edu-AREA

Open Educational Activities, Resources and Experiences

www.edu-area.com4

Edu-AREA Principles

Web 2.x Application

Open Concept Social Curation

- A referatory for resources and a repository for activities and guides-Users provide information records freely

- Links among elements are created automatically in accordance to user operations

“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that ... any one can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them”

2012 Paris OER Declaration

use->copy->modify->share

Automatic classification and ordering or information records, attending to:

- User’s reputation:

+refs -> +reputation

-Relevance of information records

+use + reputation ->+ relevance

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Experiencies

GuidesActivitie

s

Boards

To know what to do in teaching and how

To be used in activities

what can teachers find?

To prepare lesson plans before teaching

To document what has been

done/produced

To organize and curate

Resources

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Resources

Elements to be used

✓ Content✓ Devices✓ Applications✓ Contributors✓ Trips

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ActivitiesProposals to carry out during

teaching/learning

✓ Guidelines for the teachers.

✓Linked to resources.

✓Templates are used to support different kinds of formats.

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Guides

To prepare the lesson plan Educational

Setting+

Technological Setting

+Activities

(Resources)

Guides 9

Experiences

To document what happened during teaching

✓ Reflections✓ Outcomes✓ Evidences

Linked to Guides

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Boards

Personal and social classification

✓ Curation: ‣ Categories ‣ Comments‣ Ratings‣ Tags

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What can teachers do?

✓Retain. “Own” personal copies✓Reuse. Without modifications.✓Revise. Modify, adjust, contextualize.✓Remix. Combine with other.✓Redistribute. Make public.

✓Explore✓View

Discover

5Rs

Contribute Curate

✓Register new resources✓Propose new activities✓Prepare new lesson plans

✓Classify✓Annotate✓Assess

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Reputation and Relevance

Definitions: Relevance: appropriate to the matter at hand.

Reputation: the opinion that others have about a person

Why do we need them?• Many concepts Rankings.

• Many users Experts.

• Curation Quality measurement.

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Reputation and Relevance

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Usages

• Retains• Reuses• Revisions• Remixes• Redistributions

Contributions

• New resources• New activities• New Lesson

plans

Curations

• Comments• Ratings• Collections

Reputation and Relevance

How to calculate?• Information retrieval:

• Page Rank. Relevance of a page globally.

• HITS (Hypertext Induced Topic Search). Relevance taking into account the topic.

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HITS

Pages are classified as:

Authorities. Relevant pages for a certain topic.

Hubs. Contain pointers to authority pages.

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HITS

Algorithm:• 1. Set ai, pi (i=1,..,n) to 1

• 2. Repeat until convergence

• 2.1

• 2.2

• 3. Normalize 17

Adapting HITS to Edu-AREA

Algorithm:• 1. Set ri, qi (i=1,..,n) to 1

• 2. Repeat until convergence

• 2.1

• 2.2

• 3. Normalize 18

Relevance (q)

Reputation (r)

Uses (C)

Conclusions

Edu-AREA is an ongoing project.1. Until now, design and implementation

2. Next stage involving users

• 3. Then, relevance and reputation

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Your contribution is welcome!

Thanks

www.edu-area.com

@edu-area

area.telgalicia@gmail.com

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