Making sense of cutting-edge web-based literacy technologies

2017 ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
Robert Savage ◽  
Aishwarya Nair ◽  
Miriam McBreen ◽  
and Eileen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Making Sense

scholarly journals Making sense with multimedia: A text theoretical study of a digital format integrating writing and video

Seminar.net ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Engebretsen
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Digital Writing ◽  
Digital Text ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
Media Types ◽  
Video Format

Digital text formats that allow a close interaction between writing and video represent new possibilities and challenges for the communication of educational content. What are the premises for functional and appropriate communication through web-based, multimedial text formats?This article explores the digital writing-video format from a structural, theoretical perspective. To begin with, the two media’s respective characteristics are discussed and compared as carriers of complex signs. Thereafter, the focus is upon how writing and video elements can be accommodated to web media. Finally, the article discusses the conditions for optimal co-ordination and interaction between the two media types within the framework of an integrated design. A design example is presented.

scholarly journals LitSense: making sense of biomedical literature at sentence level

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (W1) ◽  
pp. W594-W599 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Allot ◽  
Qingyu Chen ◽  
Sun Kim ◽  
Roberto Vera Alvarez ◽  
Donald C Comeau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Publication Date ◽  
Routine Practice ◽  
Term Weighting ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
User Query ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
New Findings ◽  
User Friendly

AbstractLiterature search is a routine practice for scientific studies as new discoveries build on knowledge from the past. Current tools (e.g. PubMed, PubMed Central), however, generally require significant effort in query formulation and optimization (especially in searching the full-length articles) and do not allow direct retrieval of specific statements, which is key for tasks such as comparing/validating new findings with previous knowledge and performing evidence attribution in biocuration. Thus, we introduce LitSense, which is the first web-based system that specializes in sentence retrieval for biomedical literature. LitSense provides unified access to PubMed and PMC content with over a half-billion sentences in total. Given a query, LitSense returns best-matching sentences using both a traditional term-weighting approach that up-weights sentences that contain more of the rare terms in the user query as well as a novel neural embedding approach that enables the retrieval of semantically relevant results without explicit keyword match. LitSense provides a user-friendly interface that assists its users to quickly browse the returned sentences in context and/or further filter search results by section or publication date. LitSense also employs PubTator to highlight biomedical entities (e.g. gene/proteins) in the sentences for better result visualization. LitSense is freely available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/litsense.

scholarly journals Sistema de Información para la Vinculación entre Instituciones de Educación y Empresa

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
A.I. Muñoz Galicia ◽  
S. Contreras Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Information System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Information System Development ◽  
Web Based ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Edge Tool

El software presentado es un sistema de información que automatiza los procesos de las prácticas profesionales (o sus similares en otras instituciones de educación) con una aplicación basada en Internet, en donde los diferentes actores (alumno, universidad y empresa) obtienen la información que les compete de manera efectiva, ya que el sistema valida la información vertida en las bases de datos y ofrece seguridad en las transacciones realizadas. El producto tecnológico que resulta se nombró Sistema de Información para la Vinculación entre Instituciones de Educación – Empresa (SIVIEE), fue desarrollado con la idea de que redes de instituciones educativas posean una herramienta de vanguardia para la realización de prácticas profesionales. Permite la comunicación e intercambio de documentos electrónicamente con las respectivas firmas electrónicas, genera documentos PDF, mismos que son almacenados en el servidor. También abre la posibilidad de realizar minería de datos al almacenar la información de alumnos, empresas y proyectos. This paper involved the information system development, to automate the professional practices (or their counterparts in other universities) with a web-based application, where different actors (students, universities and companies) get the information they effectively compete them because the system validates the information contained in the databases and provides security transactions. The resulting technological product is called SIVIEE or Information System to Link University – Business, was developed with the idea that educational institutions have networks a cutting-edge tool for management of professional practices. Allows communication and electronic exchange of documents with the signatures respective, generates PDF documents that are stored on the server. The store information of students, companies and projects, open the possibility of data mining.

The Cutting Edge

2008 ◽  
pp. 159-194
Author(s):  
Kevin F. Downing ◽  
Jennifer K. Holtz
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Data Transmission ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Transmission Speed ◽  
The Ideal

The evolution of online education will continue to be coupled to and constrained by innovations in Communication and Information Technologies (CIT). Only a few years ago, web-based courses were characterized by slow data transmission, at 56 kbps with dial-up lines that dramatically limited the styles of communication and the amount of multimedia that could be incorporated directly through the internet to support learning. As a result, course development was regularly compromised by technical limitations. For online education, the ideal threshold in data transmission speed is that point at which an author’s course vision and creativity is unrestricted by the instructional hardware and software permitting the effortless incorporation of interactivity styles and multimedia. This ideal will be met at different times by particular course authors, institutions, and even between disciplines (e.g., English versus science).

scholarly journals Platforms and hyper-choice on the World Wide Web

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395171876587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Graham
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Choice Making ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
The Relationship

Choice is a sine qua non of contemporary life. From childhood until death, we are faced with an unending series of choices through which we cultivate a sense of self, govern conduct, and shape the future. Nowadays, individuals increasingly experience and enact consumer choice online through web-based platforms such as Yelp.com , TripAdvisor.com and Amazon.com . These platforms not only provide a sprawling array of goods and services to choose from, but also reviews, ratings and ranking devices and systems of classification to navigate this landscape of choice. This paper suggests a radical reconsideration of platform architectures and design features to consider how they reconfigure and respecify choice, ‘choosers’, and choice-making practices. Platforms are not simply cameras that present choice and enable comparisons between different options, but are more akin to engines that govern, drive and expand choice, configuring users within particular discourses, practices and subjectivities. In making sense of the entangled trajectories of consumer choice, platform architectures and Big Data, I suggest that ‘hyper-choice’ emerges as a condition of the contemporary platform-driven web. I examine hyper-choice not only in terms of the relationship between platforms and a growing abundance of choice, but more importantly how platforms reconfigure choice in ways that go beyond and fundamentally challenge existing understandings of what choice is, who and what is involved in producing knowledge about choice, and what it means to be a ‘chooser’.

Web-based sharing of cutting-edge teaching strategies

2002 ◽  
Vol 366 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Williams ◽  
Darian Rice ◽  
Robert Piepho ◽  
Claire Lathers ◽  
Gilbert Burckart
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Web Based

Personalized Web-Based Learning Services

2011 ◽  
pp. 814-820
Author(s):  
Larbi Esmahi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Adaptive Systems ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Computer Based Learning ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Career Needs ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control

Computers have a great potential as support tools for learning; they promise the possibility of affordable, individualized learning environments. In early teaching systems, the goal was to build a clever teacher able to communicate knowledge to the individual learner. Recent and emerging work focuses on the learner exploring, designing, constructing, making sense of, and using adaptive systems as tools. Hence, the new tendency is to give the learner greater responsibility and control over all aspects of the learning process. This need for flexibility, personalization, and control results from a shift in the perception of the learning process. In fact, new trends emerging in the education domain are significantly influencing e-learning (Kay, 2001) in the following ways: • The shift from studying in order to graduate, to studying in order to learn; most e-learners are working and have well-defined personal goals for enhancing their careers. • The shift from student to learner; this shift has resulted in a change in strategy and control so that the learning process is becoming more cooperative than competitive. • The shift from expertise in a domain to teaching beliefs; the classical teaching systems refer to domain and teaching expertise when dealing with the knowledge transfer process, but the new trend is based on the concept of belief. One teacher may have different beliefs from another, and the different actors in the system (students, peers, teachers), may have different beliefs about the domain and teaching methods. • The shift from a four-year program to graduate to lifelong learning; most e-learners have a long-term learning plan related to their career needs. • The shift to conceiving university departments as communities of scholars, but not necessarily in a single location. • The shift to mobile learning; most e-learners are working and have little spare time. Therefore, any computer-based learning must fit into their busy schedules (at work, at home, when traveling), since they require a personal and portable system.

scholarly journals Making Sense of Mobile- and Web-Based Wellness Information Technology: Cross-Generational Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. e83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kutz ◽  
Kalpana Shankar ◽  
Kay Connelly
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Generational Study
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