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- ItemQuality Prediction of Open Educational Resources A Metadata-based Approach(Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2020) Tavakoli, Mohammadreza; Elias, Mirette; Kismihók, Gábor; Auer, Sören; Chang, Maiga; Sampson, Demetrios G.; Huang, Ronghuai; Hooshyar, Danial; Chen, Nian-Shing; Kinshuk; Pedaste, MargusIn the recent decade, online learning environments have accumulated millions of Open Educational Resources (OERs). However, for learners, finding relevant and high quality OERs is a complicated and time-consuming activity. Furthermore, metadata play a key role in offering high quality services such as recommendation and search. Metadata can also be used for automatic OER quality control as, in the light of the continuously increasing number of OERs, manual quality control is getting more and more difficult. In this work, we collected the metadata of 8,887 OERs to perform an exploratory data analysis to observe the effect of quality control on metadata quality. Subsequently, we propose an OER metadata scoring model, and build a metadata-based prediction model to anticipate the quality of OERs. Based on our data and model, we were able to detect high-quality OERs with the F1 score of 94.6%. © 20xx IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
- ItemOER Recommendations to Support Career Development(Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2020) Tavakoli, Mohammadreza; Faraji, Ali; Mol, Stefan T.; Kismihók, GáborThis Work in Progress Research paper departs from the recent, turbulent changes in global societies, forcing many citizens to re-skill themselves to (re)gain employment. Learners therefore need to be equipped with skills to be autonomous and strategic about their own skill development. Subsequently, high-quality, on-line, personalized educational content and services are also essential to serve this high demand for learning content. Open Educational Resources (OERs) have high potential to contribute to the mitigation of these problems, as they are available in a wide range of learning and occupational contexts globally. However, their applicability has been limited, due to low metadata quality and complex quality control. These issues resulted in a lack of personalised OER functions, like recommendation and search. Therefore, we suggest a novel, personalised OER recommendation method to match skill development targets with open learning content. This is done by: 1) using an OER quality prediction model based on metadata, OER properties, and content; 2) supporting learners to set individual skill targets based on actual labour market information, and 3) building a personalized OER recommender to help learners to master their skill targets. Accordingly, we built a prototype focusing on Data Science related jobs, and evaluated this prototype with 23 data scientists in different expertise levels. Pilot participants used our prototype for at least 30 minutes and commented on each of the recommended OERs. As a result, more than 400 recommendations were generated and 80.9% of the recommendations were reported as useful.
- ItemA Recommender System For Open Educational Videos Based On Skill Requirements(Ithaca, NY : Cornell University, 2020) Tavakoli, Mohammadreza; Hakimov, Sherzod; Ewerth, Ralph; Kismihók, GáborIn this paper, we suggest a novel method to help learners find relevant open educational videos to master skills demanded on the labour market. We have built a prototype, which 1) applies text classification and text mining methods on job vacancy announcements to match jobs and their required skills; 2) predicts the quality of videos; and 3) creates an open educational video recommender system to suggest personalized learning content to learners. For the first evaluation of this prototype we focused on the area of data science related jobs. Our prototype was evaluated by in-depth, semi-structured interviews. 15 subject matter experts provided feedback to assess how our recommender prototype performs in terms of its objectives, logic, and contribution to learning. More than 250 videos were recommended, and 82.8% of these recommendations were treated as useful by the interviewees. Moreover, interviews revealed that our personalized video recommender system, has the potential to improve the learning experience.
- ItemExtracting Topics from Open Educational Resources(Ithaca, NY : Cornell University, 2020) Molavi, Mohammadreza; Tavakoli, Mohammadreza; Kismihók, GáborIn recent years, Open Educational Resources (OERs) were earmarked as critical when mitigating the increasing need for education globally. Obviously, OERs have high-potential to satisfy learners in many different circumstances, as they are available in a wide range of contexts. However, the low-quality of OER metadata, in general, is one of the main reasons behind the lack of personalised services such as search and recommendation. As a result, the applicability of OERs remains limited. Nevertheless, OER metadata about covered topics (subjects) is essentially required by learners to build effective learning pathways towards their individual learning objectives. Therefore, in this paper, we report on a work in progress project proposing an OER topic extraction approach, applying text mining techniques, to generate high-quality OER metadata about topic distribution. This is done by: 1) collecting 123 lectures from Coursera and Khan Academy in the area of data science related skills, 2) applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) on the collected resources in order to extract existing topics related to these skills, and 3) defining topic distributions covered by a particular OER. To evaluate our model, we used the data-set of educational resources from Youtube, and compared our topic distribution results with their manually defined target topics with the help of 3 experts in the area of data science. As a result, our model extracted topics with 79% of F1-score.
- ItemMetadata analysis of open educational resources(New York,NY,United States : Association for Computing Machinery, 2021) Tavakoli, Mohammadreza; Elias, Mirette; Kismihók, Gábor; Auer, Sören; Scheffel, MarenOpen Educational Resources (OERs) are openly licensed educational materials that are widely used for learning. Nowadays, many online learning repositories provide millions of OERs. Therefore, it is exceedingly difficult for learners to find the most appropriate OER among these resources. Subsequently, the precise OER metadata is critical for providing high-quality services such as search and recommendation. Moreover, metadata facilitates the process of automatic OER quality control as the continuously increasing number of OERs makes manual quality control extremely difficult. This work uses the metadata of 8,887 OERs to perform an exploratory data analysis on OER metadata. Accordingly, this work proposes metadata-based scoring and prediction models to anticipate the quality of OERs. Based on the results, our analysis demonstrated that OER metadata and OER content qualities are closely related, as we could detect high-quality OERs with an accuracy of 94.6%. Our model was also evaluated on 884 educational videos from Youtube to show its applicability on other educational repositories.
- ItemLernort Bibliothek in Pandemie-Zeiten : zeitgemäßes Lernen und digitale Bildungsangebote in Öffentlichen Bibliotheken(Reutlingen : Berufsverband Information Bibliothek, 2021) Fahrenkrog, GabrieleMit den Veränderungen durch die Digitalisierung im Bildungsbereich und insbesondere mit den Bedingungen, die durch COVID-19 und den damit verbundenen Schul- und Bibliotheksschließungen einhergingen, veränderten sich auch die Anforderungen an den Lernort Bibliothek. Als Ort, um allein oder gemeinsam in der Gruppe zu lernen, wurden Bibliotheken im Laufe der Jahre immer beliebter. Was aber bleibt davon, wenn die Bibliothek pandemiebedingt geschlossen bleiben muss und wie können sich Bibliotheken ausrichten, um bei möglichen erneuten Schließungen von Schulen und Bibliotheken trotzdem geeignete Angebote zu machen und Lernort zu bleiben?
- ItemOpen Educational Resources als neue Aufgabe für Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken(Hannover : Hochschule Hannover, 2017) Stummeyer, SabineOpen Educational Resources (OER) sind sich in Deutschland bisher hauptsächlich im Bereich der schulischen Bildung im Gespräch. Ihr Potential innerhalb der deutschen Hochschullehre wurde zwar bereits erkannt, wird aber bisher noch nicht genutzt. Die Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über die terminologischen Grundlagen von OER und ihren Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten im Hochschulbereich. In einer Zusammenfassung werden die Förderung von OER durch die Europäische Kommission und in Deutschland, sowie ihre Entwicklung im deutschen Hochschulbereich dargestellt. In einem theoretischen Abgleich aktueller Studien und Fachliteratur wird eine Bestandsaufnahme zu neuen Aufgabenbereichen für Wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken durch OER durchgeführt. Eine Expertenbefragung, die beispielhaft unter Lehrenden der Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH) durchgeführt wurde, gibt Aufschluss über deren aktuellen Nutzungsstand von OER. Die wird ergänzt durch eine Untersuchung zweier Sharingdienste (Zenodo und SlideShare) nach freien Lehrmaterialien von Angehörigen der LUH. Abschließend werden auf der Basis der theoretischen Möglichkeiten sowie der individuellen Bedürfnisse der Lehrenden Empfehlungen für neue Dienstleistungen und Serviceangebote Wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken zur Unterstützung der Hochschulen bei der Einführung, Herstellung und Verbreitung von OER am Beispiel der Technischen Informationsbibliothek Hannover (TIB) gegeben, sowie neue Aufgabenbereiche für Hochschulbibliotheken skizziert, die sich daraus ergeben.
- ItemDas FOSTER Open Science Training Handbuch(Zenodo, 2018) Brinken, Helene; Hellert, LambertDas Open Science Training Handbuch wurde im Februar 2018 während eines Book Sprints entwickelt und geschrieben. Das Handbuch richtet sich an Personen, die selbst Trainings und Workshops zum Thema Open Science organisieren möchten. Die TIB Hannover und das EU-geförderte Projekt FOSTER Plus brachten 14 Open Science ExpertInnen aus zehn Ländern zusammen, um eine OER zu erstellen, die die Open Science Trainer-Community unterstützt. Während des fünftägigen Workshops diskutierten und sammelten die AutorInnen ihre Erfahrungen und verfassten kollaborativ ein praxisnahes Buch mit über 200 Seiten. Die OER ist unter der Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0 Universal) lizenziert und ermöglicht damit eine uneingeschränkte Nachnutzung. Das Buch ist unter https://book.fosteropenscience.eu als Gitbook verfügbar, und wird fortlaufend kommentiert, ergänzt und aktualisiert.
- ItemMitgedacht: Roboter in meinem Leben - und jetzt? : Dokumentation eines Learning Circles zu Robotik und KI(Hamburg : Hamburg Open Online University, 2021) Bauer, Silvia; Dürkop, Axel; Fahrenkrog, Gabriele; Köhncke, Martin; Kranz, Sarah; Politt, SarahDas Skript dokumentiert einen sechswöchigen Learning Circle zu Robotik und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Die Informationen wurden von den genannten Autor:innen kollaborativ zusammengetragen und stehen als offene Bildungsresource (OER) anderen Interessierten zur Verfügung.