Enriching the Web of Data with Educational Information Using We-Share

Autor: Adolfo Ruiz-Calleja, Juan Ignacio Asensio-Pérez, Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Eduardo Gómez-Sánchez, Miguel Luis Bote-Lorenzo, Carlos Alario-Hoyos
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 18, Iss 1 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1492-3831
DOI: 10.19173/irrodl.v18i1.2633
Popis: This paper presents We-Share, a social annotation application that enables educators to publish and retrieve information about educational ICT tools. As a distinctive characteristic, We-Share provides educators data about educational tools already available on the Web of Data while allowing them to enrich such data with their experience using technology in the classroom. We-Share evaluation entails an empirical study where 23 educators enriched tool descriptions available on the Web of Data out of their own experience. The results suggest that experiential annotations published by educators using We-Share improve the satisfaction and confidence of other educators when discovering and selecting ICT tools. Further, most educators found We-Share an easy-to-use application suitable to share and retrieve information about educational ICT tools.
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