AWESOME computing: Using corpus data to tailor a community environment for dissertation writing

Vania Dimitriva*, Royce Neagle, Sirisha Bajanki, Lydia Lau, Roger Boyle

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This demonstration will present a novel community environment 'AWESOME Dissertation Environment (ADE)' which uses semantic wikis to implement the pedagogical approach of 'social scaffolding'. ADE was developed within an interdisciplinary UK research project called AWESOME (Academic Writing Empowered by Social Online Mediated Environments) which involved the universities of Leeds, Coventry and Bangor. The environment was instantiated in several domains: Education, Fashion and Design, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and an Academic Writing Centre. Following both the encouraging feedback from the trial instantiations and the challenges faced in deploying the environment in practice, we conducted a second stage of the project which aimed at adapting the ADE to dissertation writing in computing. Following the lessons learnt from the first stage, we now performed a systematic approach to tailor the existing community environment to meet dissertation writing needs in a specific domain and in a particular educational practice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Tutoring Systems - 10th International Conference, ITS 2010, Proceedings
Pages443
Number of pages1
EditionPART 2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America
Duration: 14 Jun 201018 Jun 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume6095 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States of America
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period14 Jun 201018 Jun 2010

Keywords

  • Dissertation writing
  • Ill-defined domains
  • Learning communities
  • Social semantic web

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