Abstract
Educational researchers need to exchange and compare their learner-interaction data in order to benefit the learning science community as a whole. In order to support this, we propose accessing data in different repositories via a mediator component that maps generic queries to the specific format of a target repository. This approach is supported by a common ontology, and we illustrate the beginnings of such an ontology. We are in the early stages of developing this concept but show its promise by discussing how it can be applied to repositories of disparate educational data, such as collaborative learning interactions and cognitive tutor data.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope Project Report D31.2, Project “Interaction Analysis (IA),” Library of Interaction analysis methods (2005)
Anderson, J.R.: Spanning Seven Orders of Magnitude: A Challenge for Cognitive Modelling. Cognitive Science 26(1), 85–112 (2002)
Newell, A.: Unified Theories of Cognition. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge (1990)
Kärger, P., Ullrich, C., Melis, E.: Integrating Learning Object Repositories Using a Mediator Architecture. In: Innovative Approaches for Learning and Knowledge Sharing, 1st European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, pp. 185–197 (2006)
VanLehn, K., Koedinger, K.R., Skogsholm, A., Nwaigwe, A., Hausmann, R.G.M., Weinstein, A., Billings, B.: What’s in a Step? Toward General, Abstract Representations of Tutoring System Log Data. In: Conati, C., McCoy, K., Paliouras, G. (eds.) UM 2007. LNCS (LNAI), vol. 4511, pp. 455–459. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Martínez, A., de la Fuente, P., Dimitriadis, Y.: Towards an XML-based Representation of Collaborative Interaction. International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, pp. 379-384 (2003)
Adam, J.-M.: Demonstrator of an Infrastructure for Collection and Exchange of Experimental Traces, Kaleidoscope Initiative report D7.8.1 (2006)
Melis, E., Goguadse, G., Homik, M., Libbrecht, P., Ullrich, C., Winterstein, S.: Semantic-Aware Components and Services in Activemath. British Journal of Educational Technology. Special Issue: Semantic Web for E-learning 37(3), 405–423 (2006)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Melis, E., McLaren, B.M., Solomon, S. (2008). Towards Accessing Disparate Educational Data in a Single, Unified Manner. In: Dillenbourg, P., Specht, M. (eds) Times of Convergence. Technologies Across Learning Contexts. EC-TEL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87605-2_31
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87605-2_31
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-87604-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-87605-2
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)