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Convergence of Knowledge Management and E-Learning: the GetSmart Experience

Marshall, Byron and Zhang, Yiwen and Chen, Hsinchun and Lally, Ann M. and Shen, Rao and Fox, Edward and Cassel, Lillian N. (2003) Convergence of Knowledge Management and E-Learning: the GetSmart Experience. In Proceedings Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Houston, TX.

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Abstract

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL), launched in December 2002, is emerging as a center of innovation in digital libraries as applied to education. As a part of this extensive project, the GetSmart system was created to apply knowledge management techniques in a learning environment. The design of the system is based on an analysis of learning theory and the information search process. Its key notion is the integration of search tools and curriculum support with concept mapping. More than 100 students at the University of Arizona and Virginia Tech used the system in the fall of 2002. A database of more than one thousand student-prepared concept maps has been collected with more than forty thousand relationships expressed in semantic, graphical, node-link representations. Preliminary analysis of the collected data is revealing interesting knowledge representation patterns.

EPrint Type:Conference Paper
Keywords:National Science Digital Library, NSDL, Artificial Intelligence Lab, AI Lab, GetSmart
Subjects:Knowledge Management
Digital Libraries
ID Code:439
Deposited On:16 August 2004
Alternative Locations:http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/go/papers.html
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