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Supporting Educational Content Enrichment and Learning via Student-Created Definitions

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New Horizons in Web Based Learning (ICWL 2014)

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Creating notes and annotations in educational content during learning helps students in better organization of learning materials. In addition, the provided content represents an interesting source of information for further processing, which can result into enrichment of the educational content or metadata. In this paper we report on new type of annotation - definition - in educational system ALEF – a mean for creating, accessing and rating definitions of key terms in a course by students themselves. We describe experiments conducted and present analysis of definitions provided by students of two courses at Slovak University of Technology.

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This work was partially supported by grants No. VG1/0675/11, KEGA 009STU-4/2014, and APVV-0208-10.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 2, 842 16, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Martin Svrček & Marián Šimko

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  1. IMC AG, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Yiwei Cao

  2. Institute of Informatics, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Terje Väljataga

  3. Department of Computer Science, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tseung Kwan, Hong Kong SAR

    Jeff K.T. Tang

  4. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Howard Leung

  5. Institute of Informatics, Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mart Laanpere

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Svrček, M., Šimko, M. (2014). Supporting Educational Content Enrichment and Learning via Student-Created Definitions. In: Cao, Y., Väljataga, T., Tang, J., Leung, H., Laanpere, M. (eds) New Horizons in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13296-9_5

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