Community Social Service: Students Away from the Classroom, Building Knowledge in Their Communities

Designing Smart Knowledge Building Communities

Knowledge building communities (KBCs) are environments where learning is continually occurring as a social process, and the collective knowledge base is gradually being expanded upon. Knowledge accessible to all members is produced in collaborative discourse, along with the development and the use of conceptual artifacts. This theoretical contribution discusses the possibilities to foster and d...

Knowledge Networks and Classroom Practice: How students can organize their new knowledge

Students assessing their own knowledge advances in a knowledge building environment

We describe the design of a knowledge-building environment and examine the roles of knowledge-building portfolios in characterizing and scaffolding collaborative inquiry. Three classes of Grade 9 students in Hong Kong used Knowledge Forum (KF) under several design conditions. Results showed (1) Students working on portfolios guided with knowledge building principles showed more participation, d...

Towards Building Open Knowledge Base From Programming Question-Answering Communities

In this paper, we propose the first system, so-called Open Programming Knowledge Extraction (OPKE), to automatically extract knowledge from programming Question-Answering (QA) communities. OPKE is the first step of building a programming-centric knowledge base. Data mining and Natural Language Processing techniques are leveraged to identify duplicate questions and construct structured informati...

Engaging College Students From Diverse Backgrounds in Community Service Learning

Community service learning at the university level is often conceived of as a mechanism for introducing privileged young adults to people with whom they have never interacted and experiences they have never had. American universities and courses involving community service learning are increasingly filling, however, with undergraduates who are members of the identity categories to which the com...