How Can Common Sense Support Instructors with Distance Education?
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This paper shows how a common sense knowledge base, collected from volunteers over the web, can be used by teachers to plan Learning Actions for preparing students to interact with the community where the common sense statements came from. Consequently, this knowledge base can help teachers to deal with some challenges they face when they adopt a DL approach.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006