- From: Sören Auer <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 21:07:33 +0200
- To: Juan Ignacio Vidal <ignacio.vidal@lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar>, "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@lig.net>
- CC: Paul-Olivier Dehaye <paul-olivier.dehaye@math.uzh.ch>, semantic-web@w3.org
Dear all, One goal of Slidewiki is exactly to enable students and everyone else to contribute notes, additional content and discussions. I experienced this myself already, that students helped correcting things on the slides I presented during the lecture. Also, the translation of content and making it available in as many languages as possible is a core aim of SlideWiki: We added the Google translate API to easily create an automatic translation in any of the more than 50 supported languages, after which it can be revised and improved by a community of translators - our experience is that this saves more than 50% of the translation effort and additionally the crowd-sourcing effect reduces the required effort even further. Other than many other initiatives, SlideWiki is *truly* open-content (licensed by CC-BY-SA) AND open-source software. Best, Sören On 5/25/2014 3:06 PM, Juan Ignacio Vidal wrote: > Hello everyone, we are working in the developing of a wiki (a semantic > media wiki installation) that works as a learning object repository. > It has, as main feature, the possibility to edit by means of a (not so) > simple form, the metadata of the learning resources. Also add new > resources, and publish them via an oai target. > We are currently working in adding this information in the linked data > cloud, in order to harness the information published there; as main > goal, we pretend to improve the quality in metadata records with this > collaborative/open approach. > If anyone is interested, we have a beta version on line at > http://moodle.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar/_wikilor/ (it takes a while to load > the first page, due to some big indexation issue). > As Paul stated, is an interesting approach for us too, to harness the > students/teachers community to improve the annotation in learning resources. > > Regards, > > Ignacio. > > > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Stephen D. Williams <sdw@lig.net > <mailto:sdw@lig.net>> wrote: > > I'm definitely interested. We're working on some new ideas for a > new type of educational ecosystem combining education with > entertainment, especially games, focusing on a broader market than > typical MOOCs. I'm very enthusiastic about MOOCs too, having > taken and finished very well on two out of three of what I think of > as the original MOOCS: AI and ML at Stanford. > > Stephen > > > On 5/23/14, 5:44 PM, Paul-Olivier Dehaye wrote: >> Hi Soren, all, >> As I understand it, Slidewiki lets professors collaborate on >> content production for courses. When I asked my question on the >> list, I had a different user base in mind: students. In most big >> MOOCs right now, students organise themselves spontaneously and >> start typing up the notes of the professor, write glossaries, etc. >> They usually do that via a wiki, and many professors report that >> the notes there end up more polished than their own. I am >> convinced that these same students could also semantically >> annotate these notes, if offered proper tools. I see three reasons >> why they would do it: >> 1) they understand this is useful for semantic web goals (citizen >> science-style) >> 2) just doing it helps the participant to study the material >> 3) if additional services can be offered, they might find it >> useful for themselves and their peers (cheat sheet of definitions, >> for instance, or flash cards) >> >> It is really hard to overemphasise the dedication of some students >> in those courses, I really think this could attract lots of users >> quickly. Coursera for instance just set up a global translator >> network of volunteers, to handle all the translations. >> >> If a tool is implemented, and implemented in the right way (for >> instance via LTI standard), it could be hooked up right away with >> Coursera and edx.org <http://edx.org>, collecting approximately >> 10M potential users. edx, via its XBlock API, would actually be >> the easiest way to reach the most students as a tool could be >> integrated more tightly in the platform. >> >> Bear in mind also that these annotations would apply for content >> that is typically more specialized than what is found on wikipedia. >> >> Anyone interested in this? Any existing semantic tools to >> recommend as a good starting point? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Paul >> >> >> Paul-Olivier Dehaye >> SNF Professor of Mathematics >> University of Zurich >> skype: lokami_lokami (preferred) >> phone: +41 76 407 57 96 >> chat: paulolivier@gmail.com <mailto:paulolivier@gmail.com> >> twitter: podehaye >> freenode irc: pdehaye >> >> >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Paul-Olivier Dehaye >> <paul-olivier.dehaye@math.uzh.ch >> <mailto:paul-olivier.dehaye@math.uzh.ch>> wrote: >> >> Thank you, that is relevant. Any others, maybe introducing >> semantic games in MOOCs? >> Paul >> >> Paul-Olivier Dehaye >> skype: lokami_lokami (preferred) >> phone: +41 76 407 57 96 <tel:%2B41%2076%20407%2057%2096> >> chat: paulolivier@gmail.com <mailto:paulolivier@gmail.com> >> twitter: podehaye >> freenode irc: pdehaye >> >> >> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Sören Auer >> <auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de >> <mailto:auer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>> wrote: >> >> Dear Paul-Olivier, all, >> >> I'm not exactly sure, what you have in mind, but maybe our >> SlideWiki.org >> initiative is related: >> >> With the open-courseware authoring platform SlideWiki.org, >> we aim to >> facilitate the collaborative creation of hightly structured >> multi-lingual courseware (consiting of slides organized in >> reusable >> decks, self-assessment questions, figures etc.) which >> could be used to >> create MOOCs. See http://slidewiki.org/documentation/ >> >> We use SlideWiki for a number of courses, e.g. a lecture >> series on >> Semantic Web topics: >> >> http://slidewiki.org/deck/750 >> >> BTW: We are currently running the SlideWiki OpenCourseWare >> Summer >> (SOS2014) Competition, which will award good Open Course >> Ware projects >> on SlideWiki: >> >> http://education.okfn.org/slidewiki-opencourseware-summer-sos2014-competition/ >> >> Best, >> >> Sören >> >> On 5/12/2014 9:53 PM, Paul-Olivier Dehaye wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I was wondering if anyone here has started thinking >> about or acting on >> > opportunities for semantic web research when combining >> the emerging >> > ideas of crowdsourcing and MOOcs. >> > >> > Paul-Olivier Dehaye >> > skype: lokami_lokami (preferred) >> > phone: +41 76 407 57 96 <tel:%2B41%2076%20407%2057%2096> >> > chat: paulolivier@gmail.com >> <mailto:paulolivier@gmail.com> >> <mailto:paulolivier@gmail.com <mailto:paulolivier@gmail.com>> >> > twitter: podehaye >> > freenode irc: pdehaye >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Stephen D. 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