A Study of the Reader Recommendation Service Based on Learning Commons for Satisfaction of ePortfolio Users
This study implements co-interest recommending service embedded in ePortfolio for managing and sharing reader reading book experience from library records. We also propose five hypotheses based on proposed research model. Two hundred eleven Taiwanese grad
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Abstract This study implements co-interest recommending service embedded in ePortfolio for managing and sharing reader reading book experience from library records. We also propose five hypotheses based on proposed research model. Two hundred eleven Taiwanese graduate and undergraduate students participated in this research. The experimental results have shown that five hypotheses were supported. Keywords ePortfolio
Recommendation Virtual community
Introduction The learning commons provides a range of programs and services to support learners’ learning tasks. The learning commons not only assisting students in managing information, but also helping users manage learning. Recently, constructivism education has become new trend of teaching in universities [6]. On the constructivism learning theory, learning is a process of cooperative construction of the Y.-Q. Huang (&) J.-H. Yang Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Jhongli, Taoyuan, Taiwan, Republic of China e-mail: [email protected] J.-H. Yang e-mail: [email protected] C.-H. Huang Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hwa Hsia Institute of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China e-mail: [email protected] T.-W. Sung Department of Network Multimedia Design, Hsing Kuo University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China e-mail: [email protected]
Y.-M. Huang et al. (eds.), Advanced Technologies, Embedded and Multimedia for Human-centric Computing, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 260, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7262-5_32, Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
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knowledge by teachers and students. The learning commons can powerful support collaborative learning and learning activities through integrating of various resources and smart services. Learners in constructivism education acquire knowledge by a social process of learners’ involvement into knowledge community [7]. Virtual learning community (VLC) is a virtual space of interactive collaboration which limited to network environments. According to constructivism learning theory, the learners of learning commons and VLC must actively probe into meaning of information in a social collaborative learning process. VLC is a new network learning organization established by web technologies to acquire knowledge and perform learning task through communicating with each other. The main distinguishing characteristic of VLC is its virtual space which limited to network environments. Li [6] evaluated VLC as an integral part of the learning commons and constructed a VLC in the learning commons. With the rapid development of web technology, ePortfolio has gradually developed become as a web-based information system for demonstrating the evidence of students’ learning process over time in school education [10]. In order to provide more advanced and enhanced learning services, ePortfolio is used to manage the virtual learning community in grid environment [3]. One disadvantage of conven
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