Convergence of Knowledge Management and E-Learning: the GetSmart Experience

Marshall, Byron; Zhang, Yiwen; Chen, Hsinchun; Lally, Ann M.; Shen, Rao; Fox, Edward; Cassel, Lillian N.

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Marshall, Byron
Zhang, Yiwen
Chen, Hsinchun
Lally, Ann M.
Shen, Rao
Fox, Edward
Cassel, Lillian N.

Issue Date

2003

Submitted date

2004-08-16

Keywords

Knowledge Management
Digital Libraries

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National Science Digital Library
NSDL
Artificial intelligence lab
AI lab
GetSmart

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Convergence of Knowledge Management and E-Learning: the GetSmart Experience 2003,

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ACM/IEEE

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Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona

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http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106221

Abstract

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL), launched in December 2002, is emerging as a center of innovation in digital libraries as applied to education. As a part of this extensive project, the GetSmart system was created to apply knowledge management techniques in a learning environment. The design of the system is based on an analysis of learning theory and the information search process. Its key notion is the integration of search tools and curriculum support with concept mapping. More than 100 students at the University of Arizona and Virginia Tech used the system in the fall of 2002. A database of more than one thousand student-prepared concept maps has been collected with more than forty thousand relationships expressed in semantic, graphical, node-link representations. Preliminary analysis of the collected data is revealing interesting knowledge representation patterns.