KMi Seminars
LSA-based Cognitive Models
This event took place on Wednesday 01 December 2010 at 11:30

 
Sonia Mandin Université Pierre-Mendès-France

This seminar concerns the design of technology enhanced learning environments to improve their learning through reading and writing activities. So far, We have tested (1) The effect of informative feedback on the computerized note-taking from an online course with students, (2) The effect of feedback on the production of a summary or a synthesis on the control of these activities and the understanding of the documents read and researches from students about the European project LTfLL.

Among these various studies, the most important research concerns the summary activity, an activity that allows learners to train their understanding and to assess it.

A large part of the work presented in this seminar relates to the computational modeling of cognitive processes used in understanding and writing activities. These models allow us to better understand the learner. They are based on latent semantic analysis and are used for predictive purposes in the systems designed.

More generally, with an original approach based on theories borrowed from different fields (psychological, educational, computer), we are trying to answer the question: how to assist learners to improve their reading comprehension and written production?

(Due to a combination of factors including a change of venue we were unable to record this event, we apologise to those who were otherwise unable to attend this event in person)

 
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Knowledge Management is...


Knowledge Management
Creating learning organisations hinges on managing knowledge at many levels. Knowledge can be provided by individuals or it can be created as a collective effort of a group working together towards a common goal, it can be situated as "war stories" or it can be generalised as guidelines, it can be described informally as comments in a natural language, pictures and technical drawings or it can be formalised as mathematical formulae and rules, it can be expressed explicitly or it can be tacit, embedded in the work product. The recipient of knowledge - the learner - can be an individual or a work group, professionals, university students, schoolchildren or informal communities of interest.
Our aim is to capture, analyse and organise knowledge, regardless of its origin and form and make it available to the learner when needed presented with the necessary context and in a form supporting the learning processes.