Knowledge construction by users

LKC: Learning by Knowledge Construction

Domain knowledge is mainly communicated to learners via un-assessed content such as text. Lack of effective support in reading activity of this type of resources, induces students misconceptions while increasing their cognitive load, leading to their demotivation. In this paper, we present the Learning by knowledge Construction approach (LKC). This system provides full student support for knowl...

Knowledge Ascription by Grammatical Construction

Multimedia encyclopedia construction by mining web knowledge

In recent years, we have witnessed the blooming of Web 2.0 content such as Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube, etc. Howmight we benefit from such rich media resources available on the internet? This paper presents a novel concept called Mediapedia, a dynamic multimedia encyclopedia that takes advantage of, and in fact is built from the text and image resources on the Web. The Mediapedia distinguishe...

Citation and the Construction of Subdisciplinary Knowledge

The main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in ESP and EGP subdisciplines of applied linguistics. Eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to Thompson and Tribble’s (2...

Facilitating Collaborative Knowledge Construction

This paper will describe a detailed analysis of a problem-based learning group to understand how an expert facilitator supports collaborative knowledge construction. The study examines the questions and statements that students and the facilitator generated as they traversed a complex conceptual space. The facilitator tended to use open-ended metacognitive questioning and never offered new idea...