Semantic Technology and the Question-Centric Curriculum

Autor/in	Fost, Joshua
Titel	Semantic Technology and the Question-Centric Curriculum
Quelle	In: Innovative Higher Education, 38 (2013) 1, S.31-44 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0742-5627
DOI	10.1007/s10755-012-9219-y
Schlagwörter	College Curriculum; Organization; Information Technology; Semantics; Punctuation; Intellectual Disciplines; Computer Software + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Organisation; Organisationsstruktur; Informationstechnologie; Semantik; Interpunktion; Geisteswissenschaften
Abstract	In this article I describe software that facilitates "question-centric curricula" in which "big questions," rather than academic disciplines, are the primary means of organizing educational resources. To find these questions, the software scans course catalogs and extracts all sentences ending in a question mark. To find connections between questions and courses, I present several computational techniques. One leverages the Library of Congress system; another implements so-called "semantic technology" that uses huge numbers of simple internet searches to ascertain the meaning of texts. The software assembles the results and shows, in one image, how every course at an institution relates to a given question. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10