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Manas Tungare, Xiaoyan Yu, GuoFang Teng, Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Edward Fox, Weiguo Fan, Lillian Cassel; Towards a Standardized Representation of Syllabi to Facilitate Sharing and Personalization of Digital Library Content.; Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (SW-EL).TRANSCRIPT
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Towards a Standardized Representation of Syllabi to
Facilitate Sharing and Personalization of Digital Library Content
Funded by the National Science Foundation, USA.
Part of the research project: Personalization of Content: Bridging the gap between NSDL and its users.
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Objectives
• A syllabus defines a course offering
• If we could standardize information contained in syllabi, it could be used for various applications:
• Personalizing digital library content
• Comparing and creating new syllabi
• Mobile access
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Syllabus Contents
Title, Description, Instructor, Teaching
Assistants, Prerequisites, Topics, Knowledge Units, Learning Objectives,
Calendar, Readings, Books, Book
Chapters, Articles, Papers, Instructor’s
Notes, Slides, Assignments
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Syllabi published today
• Published via:
• Instructor’s Web site
• Course management systems
• University course catalogs (summary)
• Format: HTML, PDF
• Access: Closed or open to public
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The Adoption Problem
• Chicken-and-egg situation
• Solution: Crawl and parse existing syllabi
• Develop a schema
• Store in a repository
• Develop tools & applications
• Encourage creation of new syllabi conforming to schema
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Obtaining Syllabi (step 1)
computer science site:edu
Search
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Obtaining Syllabi (step 2)
syllabus site:cs.vt.edu
Search
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Categorization
• Full syllabus
• Partial syllabus
• Syllabus entry page
• Noise
• Labeled 1000 documents as a training set
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Tools
• Syllabus creators / editors
• Syllabus repository
• Community-assisted classification and error correction
• Linking to Computing Curricula 2001
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Comparing Syllabi
CC2001
Syllabus CS1
Syllabus CS2
CC2001
Syllabus CS1
Syllabus CS2
HCI SE Curriculum Theory Curriculum
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Applications
• Personalizing NSDL* content for students
• Assisting instructors creating new syllabi
• Syllabi overview for students
• Assisting curriculum design & accreditation
• Comparing programs at various schools
• Mobile access to educational resources
* National Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education Digital Library.
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Conclusion
• Leverage information already available in syllabi
• Create a standardized representation
• Obtain existing syllabi and create a repository
• Build tools and applications to enable the use of syllabi beyond their current use
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Questions
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