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Papers by Filippo Sciarrone
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2009
As with the growing degree of office automation and diffuse use of electronic media, such as e-ma... more As with the growing degree of office automation and diffuse use of electronic media, such as e-mails, written business communication is becoming a key element to promote synergies, relationships and disseminating information about products and services. Task recognition and the definition of strategies and suitable vocabularies are some of the activities that office workers deal with each time a communicative intent has to be effectively transferred and understood by a given addressee. This paper introduces a web-based intelligent training system based on the constructivism theory and self-directed learning paradigms for assisting company workers in the drafting business letters-writing task. A case-based engine suggests ad hoc rhetorical letters that users have the chance to adapt to their particular contexts and save them into user-defined case libraries.
Peer Assessment is a powerful tool to enhance students high level meta-cognitive skills. In this ... more Peer Assessment is a powerful tool to enhance students high level meta-cognitive skills. In this paper we deal with a simulation framework (K-OpenAnswer) allowing to support peer assessment sessions, in which peers answer a question and assess some of their peers’ answers, with the enrichment of “teacher mediation”. Teacher mediation consists in the possibility for the teacher to add information into the network of data built by the peer assessment, by grading some answers. This can be useful to enhance the automated grading functionality of an educational system supporting peer assessment. We present a software system allowing to apply the K-OpenAnswer simulation framework on simulated Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCs). The system allows to guide the dynamic of the student models and grades evolution, according to the teacher’s intervention. It also allows to appreciate such dynamic and make observations about it. The aim of this paper is to show the functionalities that the tea...
Il presente lavoro nasce nell’ambito del progetto Open Learning, in cui un gruppo di ricerca mist... more Il presente lavoro nasce nell’ambito del progetto Open Learning, in cui un gruppo di ricerca misto, aziendale (CASPUR e Open Informatica) ed accademico (Universita Roma Tre), mira a concretizzare l’unione tra le tecnologie piu usate per la didattica a distanza, i Learning Management Systems e i vantaggi dei sistemi personalizzati, al fine di proporre un modello innovativo di veicolazione dei contenuti didattici, incentrato sulla personalizzazione dell’esperienza formativa. Il plug-in proposto integra in Moodle un motore che adatta automaticamente la sequenza di materiale didattico proposta al discente, sulla base delle sue conoscenze pregresse e dei suoi stili di apprendimento.
In this paper, we present the CHeM system, Cultural Heritage e-mail Manager, a support system for... more In this paper, we present the CHeM system, Cultural Heritage e-mail Manager, a support system for the analysis of e-mails of the Restoration and Conservation newsgroup, hosted by the Yahoo portal from December 2000 to January 2003. The complexity of the domain as well as the specificity of the e-mails, prompted us to build the first system prototype based on a client-side architecture, to help less expert users in classifying information contained in e-mails. The system goal is therefore to provide an instrument capable of classifying the received messages, downloaded onto the users’ desktops, into standard categories, based on their content, using the well-known techniques of Data Mining and Information Retrieval. The categories thus obtained are then used to label the messages in order to provide valuable information on the domain and therefore support specific information retrieval and produce new user groups by an automatic generation of mailing lists. The methodology presented ...
Curriculum Sequencing is one of the most appealing challenges for educational environments where ... more Curriculum Sequencing is one of the most appealing challenges for educational environments where learners need adapted courses, i.e., courses tailored to their own personal traits. In this work we address the problem of how to compare and test different Curriculum Sequencing algorithms in order to reason about them through a self-contained and homogeneous environment. We propose LS-lab, a framework for comparing and testing different Curriculum Sequencing algorithms in learning environments such as Educational Hypermedia. LS-lab has been designed to run different Curriculum Sequencing algorithms, each of them provided with its own Student Model representation. In this framework, the Knowledge Domain must be IEEE LOM compliant, while, through a suitable GUI, one can insert new algorithms or run already available ones. We are carrying out the implementation by using a 3-tier Java application technology, in order to provide this environment available on the Internet. Finally we perform...
Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2018
Telematics and Informatics
Journal of E Learning and Knowledge Society English Version, Jan 31, 2011
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2016
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2016
Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2016
Journal of E Learning and Knowledge Society Italian Version, Jan 30, 2011
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2008
This paper presents Lecomps5, a web-based system for automated course personalization in distance... more This paper presents Lecomps5, a web-based system for automated course personalization in distance learning environments. This system is an upgraded version of the Lecomps4 system, where the student model was represented by means of the student's starting knowledge, measured by initial assessment tests. In the Lecomps5 system, personalization is obtained taking into account the student's learning styles, building a dynamic
Computers in Human Behavior, 2015
ABSTRACT On line education is a student centred activity, and most of the research in this field ... more ABSTRACT On line education is a student centred activity, and most of the research in this field focuses on students; yet the quality of teaching is undoubtedly the basic ingredient for a successful learning. In particular, fostering new forms of collaboration between students and teachers, i.e. pursuing co-learning aspects of e-learning, probably needs giving teachers new means of collaboration, also among themselves. In this paper, we tackle the aim of providing the teacher with social collaboration tools, to support the process of course construction. Such a process comprises several distinct steps, from concept mapping, through selection of suitable learning material, to the final stages of delivery in a Learning Management System. It is an heavy process, through which teachers have to spend a lot of time to build or to retrieve the right learning material from local databases or from specialized repositories on the web. The support we foresee should exploit the knowledge of the whole teaching community, in which the teacher acts, to help her/him in doing the above described job. By “knowledge” we mean basically a representation of the ways of usage of learning materials, by the teachers in the community for their courses. To start on a solid footing, here we address the topic of modeling the teacher. The model we define aims to give teachers a personalized support, encompassing consideration for their own pedagogy, teaching styles, and teaching experience during course creation. It is deemed to consider all those issues in a dynamic way and to guide the teacher towards the best didactic choices.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2013
Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, the request for distance learning is increasing. Private compan... more Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, the request for distance learning is increasing. Private companies and public institutions are very sensitive to the saving of costs that such type of education could implicate, i.e., with no limits in time and place. Besides, the results obtained by this kind of learning are comparable to those reached by the classic in-presence lessons. Consequently, instructional designers need didactic instruments to build courses in a rapid way, especially if they would build their courses starting from learning objects already posted into Learning Object Repositories by other peers. Our work proposes a system, at a very early stage of development, with the aim to help instructional designers to find and retrieve learning objects suitable for their courses, starting from the classic conceptual map of the course to be built. The system contains an OLAP module to let teachers to drill-down into concepts as well.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014
In the context of e-learning courses, personalization is a more and more studied issue, being its... more In the context of e-learning courses, personalization is a more and more studied issue, being its advantage in terms of time and motivations widely proved. Course personalization basically means to understand student’s needs: to this aim several Artificial Intelligence methodologies have been used to model students for tailoring e-learning courses and to provide didactic strategies, such as planning, case based reasoning, or fuzzy logic, just to cite some of them. Moreover, in order to disseminate personalised e-learning courses, the use of known and available Learning Management System is mandatory.
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2009
As with the growing degree of office automation and diffuse use of electronic media, such as e-ma... more As with the growing degree of office automation and diffuse use of electronic media, such as e-mails, written business communication is becoming a key element to promote synergies, relationships and disseminating information about products and services. Task recognition and the definition of strategies and suitable vocabularies are some of the activities that office workers deal with each time a communicative intent has to be effectively transferred and understood by a given addressee. This paper introduces a web-based intelligent training system based on the constructivism theory and self-directed learning paradigms for assisting company workers in the drafting business letters-writing task. A case-based engine suggests ad hoc rhetorical letters that users have the chance to adapt to their particular contexts and save them into user-defined case libraries.
Peer Assessment is a powerful tool to enhance students high level meta-cognitive skills. In this ... more Peer Assessment is a powerful tool to enhance students high level meta-cognitive skills. In this paper we deal with a simulation framework (K-OpenAnswer) allowing to support peer assessment sessions, in which peers answer a question and assess some of their peers’ answers, with the enrichment of “teacher mediation”. Teacher mediation consists in the possibility for the teacher to add information into the network of data built by the peer assessment, by grading some answers. This can be useful to enhance the automated grading functionality of an educational system supporting peer assessment. We present a software system allowing to apply the K-OpenAnswer simulation framework on simulated Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCs). The system allows to guide the dynamic of the student models and grades evolution, according to the teacher’s intervention. It also allows to appreciate such dynamic and make observations about it. The aim of this paper is to show the functionalities that the tea...
Il presente lavoro nasce nell’ambito del progetto Open Learning, in cui un gruppo di ricerca mist... more Il presente lavoro nasce nell’ambito del progetto Open Learning, in cui un gruppo di ricerca misto, aziendale (CASPUR e Open Informatica) ed accademico (Universita Roma Tre), mira a concretizzare l’unione tra le tecnologie piu usate per la didattica a distanza, i Learning Management Systems e i vantaggi dei sistemi personalizzati, al fine di proporre un modello innovativo di veicolazione dei contenuti didattici, incentrato sulla personalizzazione dell’esperienza formativa. Il plug-in proposto integra in Moodle un motore che adatta automaticamente la sequenza di materiale didattico proposta al discente, sulla base delle sue conoscenze pregresse e dei suoi stili di apprendimento.
In this paper, we present the CHeM system, Cultural Heritage e-mail Manager, a support system for... more In this paper, we present the CHeM system, Cultural Heritage e-mail Manager, a support system for the analysis of e-mails of the Restoration and Conservation newsgroup, hosted by the Yahoo portal from December 2000 to January 2003. The complexity of the domain as well as the specificity of the e-mails, prompted us to build the first system prototype based on a client-side architecture, to help less expert users in classifying information contained in e-mails. The system goal is therefore to provide an instrument capable of classifying the received messages, downloaded onto the users’ desktops, into standard categories, based on their content, using the well-known techniques of Data Mining and Information Retrieval. The categories thus obtained are then used to label the messages in order to provide valuable information on the domain and therefore support specific information retrieval and produce new user groups by an automatic generation of mailing lists. The methodology presented ...
Curriculum Sequencing is one of the most appealing challenges for educational environments where ... more Curriculum Sequencing is one of the most appealing challenges for educational environments where learners need adapted courses, i.e., courses tailored to their own personal traits. In this work we address the problem of how to compare and test different Curriculum Sequencing algorithms in order to reason about them through a self-contained and homogeneous environment. We propose LS-lab, a framework for comparing and testing different Curriculum Sequencing algorithms in learning environments such as Educational Hypermedia. LS-lab has been designed to run different Curriculum Sequencing algorithms, each of them provided with its own Student Model representation. In this framework, the Knowledge Domain must be IEEE LOM compliant, while, through a suitable GUI, one can insert new algorithms or run already available ones. We are carrying out the implementation by using a 3-tier Java application technology, in order to provide this environment available on the Internet. Finally we perform...
Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2018
Telematics and Informatics
Journal of E Learning and Knowledge Society English Version, Jan 31, 2011
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 2016
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2016
Intelligent Tutoring Systems, 2016
Journal of E Learning and Knowledge Society Italian Version, Jan 30, 2011
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2008
This paper presents Lecomps5, a web-based system for automated course personalization in distance... more This paper presents Lecomps5, a web-based system for automated course personalization in distance learning environments. This system is an upgraded version of the Lecomps4 system, where the student model was represented by means of the student's starting knowledge, measured by initial assessment tests. In the Lecomps5 system, personalization is obtained taking into account the student's learning styles, building a dynamic
Computers in Human Behavior, 2015
ABSTRACT On line education is a student centred activity, and most of the research in this field ... more ABSTRACT On line education is a student centred activity, and most of the research in this field focuses on students; yet the quality of teaching is undoubtedly the basic ingredient for a successful learning. In particular, fostering new forms of collaboration between students and teachers, i.e. pursuing co-learning aspects of e-learning, probably needs giving teachers new means of collaboration, also among themselves. In this paper, we tackle the aim of providing the teacher with social collaboration tools, to support the process of course construction. Such a process comprises several distinct steps, from concept mapping, through selection of suitable learning material, to the final stages of delivery in a Learning Management System. It is an heavy process, through which teachers have to spend a lot of time to build or to retrieve the right learning material from local databases or from specialized repositories on the web. The support we foresee should exploit the knowledge of the whole teaching community, in which the teacher acts, to help her/him in doing the above described job. By “knowledge” we mean basically a representation of the ways of usage of learning materials, by the teachers in the community for their courses. To start on a solid footing, here we address the topic of modeling the teacher. The model we define aims to give teachers a personalized support, encompassing consideration for their own pedagogy, teaching styles, and teaching experience during course creation. It is deemed to consider all those issues in a dynamic way and to guide the teacher towards the best didactic choices.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2013
Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, the request for distance learning is increasing. Private compan... more Nowadays, thanks to the Internet, the request for distance learning is increasing. Private companies and public institutions are very sensitive to the saving of costs that such type of education could implicate, i.e., with no limits in time and place. Besides, the results obtained by this kind of learning are comparable to those reached by the classic in-presence lessons. Consequently, instructional designers need didactic instruments to build courses in a rapid way, especially if they would build their courses starting from learning objects already posted into Learning Object Repositories by other peers. Our work proposes a system, at a very early stage of development, with the aim to help instructional designers to find and retrieve learning objects suitable for their courses, starting from the classic conceptual map of the course to be built. The system contains an OLAP module to let teachers to drill-down into concepts as well.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014
In the context of e-learning courses, personalization is a more and more studied issue, being its... more In the context of e-learning courses, personalization is a more and more studied issue, being its advantage in terms of time and motivations widely proved. Course personalization basically means to understand student’s needs: to this aim several Artificial Intelligence methodologies have been used to model students for tailoring e-learning courses and to provide didactic strategies, such as planning, case based reasoning, or fuzzy logic, just to cite some of them. Moreover, in order to disseminate personalised e-learning courses, the use of known and available Learning Management System is mandatory.