NDLI: Automatically augmenting learning material with practical questions to increase its relevance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Singh, G.K. Kumar, V. Bhat, S. Pedanekar, N.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Tata Res. Dev. & Design Centre, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Pune, India (Singh, G.K.; Kumar, V.; Bhat, S.; Pedanekar, N.)
Abstract	Relevance of a concept being taught to the real world is believed to contribute to an increase in the intrinsic motivation and engagement of a learner. Such relevance is often found lacking in learning material such as textbooks. Practical issues and problems one could face while learning or implementing new concepts are a means of establishing such relevance. In this paper, we propose a method to automatically augment learning material with practical questions about the concept being learnt. We use questions and answers from StackOverflow, a leading social Questions and Answers (Q&A) website to augment an electronic textbook interface, thus connecting the concepts being taught to the real world. For achieving this automatically, we first mine the textbook content to locate words and phrases which are likely to be the most important concepts on each page of the textbook. We then select only those words and phrases which appear as `tags' in StackOverflow, typically defined by users while asking and answering questions. Using permutations of these tags as queries, we query the StackOverflow database to obtain relevant questions and answers to augment any given page. We present an interface to augment textbooks with such questions using the aforementioned method. We also present the results of a student survey examining the effectiveness of the augmentation in establishing relevance to their learning.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	7
File Size	967703
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479984541
DOI	10.1109/FIE.2015.7344369
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-10-21
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Databases Education Programming profession Joining processes Software Augmentation Computer Science Education e-learning Relevance Questions StackOverflow
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

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