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Topolor : a social personalized adaptive e-learning system
This paper briefly introduces Topolor, a social personalized adaptive e-learning system, which aims at improving fine-grained social interaction in the learning process in addition to applying classical adaptation based on user modeling. Here, we present the main features of Topolor and its preliminary evaluation that showed high system usability from a student’s perspective. The intention is to demonstrate Topolor hands-on at the conference
To build light gamification upon social interactions : requirement analysis for the next version of Topolor
The introduction of social dimension enables traditional adaptive educational hypermedia systems to provide more versatile personalized services. Topolor has been developed to investigate the impacts of social
interaction and feasible engagement strategies in such a system. We have evaluated Topolor’s social features from the perspectives of usefulness and ease of use. We intend to develop the next version of Topolor, starting with enhancing relatively lower rated social features. This paper presents our plan of building light gamification upon the evaluated social interaction features with relatively lower rating
Citation Analysis: A Comparison of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science
When faculty members are evaluated, they are judged in part by the impact and quality of their scholarly publications. While all academic institutions look to publication counts and venues as well as the subjective opinions of peers, many hiring, tenure, and promotion committees also rely on citation analysis to obtain a more objective assessment of an author’s work. Consequently, faculty members try to identify as many citations to their published works as possible to provide a comprehensive assessment of their publication impact on the scholarly and professional communities. The Institute for Scientific Information’s (ISI) citation databases, which are widely used as a starting point if not the only source for locating citations, have several limitations that may leave gaps in the coverage of citations to an author’s work. This paper presents a case study comparing citations found in Scopus and Google Scholar with those found in Web of Science (the portal used to search the three ISI citation databases) for items published by two Library and Information Science full-time faculty members. In addition, the paper presents a brief overview of a prototype system called CiteSearch, which analyzes combined data from multiple citation databases to produce citation-based quality evaluation measures
Social personalized adaptive e-learning environment : Topolor - implementation and evaluation
This paper presents a quantitative study on the use of Topolor - a
prototype that introduces Web 2.0 tools and Facebook-like appearance into an
adaptive educational hypermedia system. We present the system design and its
evaluation using system usability scale questionnaire and learning behavior data
analysis. The results indicate high level of student satisfaction with the learning experience and the diversity of learning activities
Designing social personalized adaptive e-learning
Here we introduce Topolor, a social personalized adaptive elearning system aiming to improve social interaction in the
learning process as well as applying classical adaptation based on user modeling. Here, we focus on the system architecture and preliminary evaluation that showed high system usability
Embedding the Library into Scientific and Scholarly Communication through Knowledge Management
Knowledge management is a new role for academic research libraries
that has the potential to integrate the library into scholarly and scientific
communication in a significant way. Work in knowledge management
is advancing in both the sciences and humanities. The Genome Data
Base at the Johns Hopkins University is currently the most advanced
knowledge management prototype. As part of its new Center for
Knowledge Management, the University of California, San Francisco
is undertaking several initiatives to create a campuswide knowledge
management environment.published or submitted for publicatio
Evaluation of social interaction features in topolor - a social personalized adaptive e-learning system
Here we present a case study that analyses the social interaction features in Topolor, an adaptive personalized social e-learning system. This paper focuses on the evaluation of the perceived usefulness and usability. The results show a considerably high satisfaction of the students. We discuss the evaluation results and outline the plan for improvement
Why are health care interventions delivered over the internet? : a systematic review of the published literature
Background: As Internet use grows, health interventions are increasingly being delivered online. Pioneering researchers are
using the networking potential of the Internet, and several of them have evaluated these interventions.
Objective: The objective was to review the reasons why health interventions have been delivered on the Internet and to reflect
on the work of the pioneers in this field in order to inform future research.
Methods: We conducted a qualitative systematic review of peer-reviewed evaluations of health interventions delivered to a
known client/patient group using networked features of the Internet. Papers were reviewed for the reasons given for using the
Internet, and these reasons were categorized.
Results: We included studies evaluating 28 interventions plus 9 interventions that were evaluated in pilot studies. The interventions
were aimed at a range of health conditions. Reasons for Internet delivery included low cost and resource implications due to the
nature of the technology; reducing cost and increasing convenience for users; reduction of health service costs; overcoming
isolation of users; the need for timely information; stigma reduction; and increased user and supplier control of the intervention.
A small number of studies gave the existence of Internet interventions as the only reason for undertaking an evaluation of this
mode of delivery.
Conclusions: One must remain alert for the unintended effects of Internet delivery of health interventions due to the potential
for reinforcing the problems that the intervention was designed to help. Internet delivery overcomes isolation of time, mobility,
and geography, but it may not be a substitute for face-to-face contact. Future evaluations need to incorporate the evaluation of
cost, not only to the health service but also to users and their social networks. When researchers report the outcomes of
Internet-delivered health care interventions, it is important that they clearly state why they chose to use the Internet, preferably
backing up their decision with theoretical models and exploratory work. Evaluation of the effectiveness of a health care intervention
delivered by the Internet needs to include comparison with more traditional modes of delivery to answer the following question:
What are the added benefits or disadvantages of Internet use that are particular to this mode of delivery
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