Bridging the gap among cultures: the challenge faced by teachers on producing content for computer-aided education

Authors:
Junia Coutinho Anacleto;Alessandro José Francisco Carlos;Aparecido Fabiano Pinatti de Carvalho;Ana Luiza Dias
Affiliations:
Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar, São Carlos - SP - Brazil;Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar, São Carlos - SP - Brazil;Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar, São Carlos - SP - Brazil;Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar, São Carlos - SP - Brazil
Venue:
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Year:
2008

Citing 5
Cited 2

Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software

Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Usability Engineering

Usability Engineering
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th Edition)

Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th Edition)
Hyper documents with quality for distance learning: cognitive strategies to help teachers in the navigational project and content organization

WebMedia '05 Proceedings of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the web
Learning activities on health care supported by common sense knowledge

Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Providing culturally contextualized metadata to promote sharing and reuse of learning objects

Proceedings of the 27th ACM international conference on Design of communication
Filling out learning object metadata considering cultural contextualization

SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Considering computer-aided education, the creation of educational content is still a hard task for teachers. Computational tools are necessary to support authors in creating suitable material for learners from different cultures, allowing effective learning. Aiming to help teachers with such hard task of generating contextualized content to stimulate learners from different places and communities to engage into their own apprenticeship, it has been under development a computational tool called Cognitor, a content editor supported by cultural knowledge expressed on common sense. This paper presents a usability test on Cognitor and discusses preliminary evaluations on it.