e-Teaching Assistant - A Social Intelligent Platform Supporting Teachers in the Collaborative Creation of Courses

Marco Mesiti, Stefano Valtolina, Simone Bassis, Francesco Epifania, Bruno Apolloni

2014

Abstract

With the ambition of providing teachers with a concrete tool for worldwide exploiting didactic contents to feature their courses, we face the problem of creating a social platform with adequate functionalities to satisfy the teacher expectations. Starting with a well designed architecture we endow it with three key functionalities that become the stakeholders of the emerging social network: 1) a quality system ensuring the value of the materials the users put in the platform repository as their contribution to the social business, 2) a recommender system based on computational intelligence techniques constituting the principal tool to guide teachers along the assembling of materials into courses, and 3) a gamification system, root of the no-profit business plan of the platform, to involve teachers in the social network. As a result we delineate an ecosystem where teachers exploit contents of a repository to which contribute by themselves. They are encouraged in exploiting and contributing because the contents are of high quality; they are wisely assisted in the exploration of the repository by platform services yet under their full control; and they are variously reworded by this involvement.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mesiti M., Valtolina S., Bassis S., Epifania F. and Apolloni B. (2014). e-Teaching Assistant - A Social Intelligent Platform Supporting Teachers in the Collaborative Creation of Courses . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-020-8, pages 569-575. DOI: 10.5220/0004963505690575

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu14,
author={Marco Mesiti and Stefano Valtolina and Simone Bassis and Francesco Epifania and Bruno Apolloni},
title={e-Teaching Assistant - A Social Intelligent Platform Supporting Teachers in the Collaborative Creation of Courses},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={569-575},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004963505690575},
isbn={978-989-758-020-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - e-Teaching Assistant - A Social Intelligent Platform Supporting Teachers in the Collaborative Creation of Courses
SN - 978-989-758-020-8
AU - Mesiti M.
AU - Valtolina S.
AU - Bassis S.
AU - Epifania F.
AU - Apolloni B.
PY - 2014
SP - 569
EP - 575
DO - 10.5220/0004963505690575