Supporting Resource-based Learning with Knowledge Networks and Scaffolds
Key: Böh11-10
Author: Doreen Böhnstedt and Christoph Rensing and Ralf Steinmetz
Date: November 2011
Kind: @incollection
Publisher: Waxmann
Book title: IATEL - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Technology-enhanced Learning
Abstract: The term “learning in networks” encompasses different kinds of technology-enhanced learning. In our paper we focus on a scenario called resource-based learning using web resources. More and more, the web is used as the most important information source because information about almost everything as well as up-to-date information is made easily accessible. In this scenario, the web forms the network. Elements of the network on the one hand are web resources, which are used for learning purposes and knowledge acquisition. On the other hand the users of our application and the resources collected by the users form a network. This network subsumes the community and the knowledge network and can thus be seen as learning networks. Learners have to cope with a mass of web resources in Resource-based learning scenarios. Different challenges arise from this fact. This paper describes the challenges, our approach to manage resources and to represent them by knowledge networks and scaffolds which address some of these challenges.
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