Use of Semantics to Build an Academic Writing Community Environment

Authors:
Sirisha Bajanki;Kathrin Kaufhold;Alex Le Bek;Vania Dimitrova;Lydia Lau;Rebecca O'Rourke;Aisha Walker
Affiliations:
School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK;School of Education, University of Leeds, UK;Web Design: Simple solutions from advanced technology, Leeds, UK;School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK;School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK;School of Education, University of Leeds, UK;School of Education, University of Leeds, UK
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modelling
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Writing a dissertation is a critical aspect of the learning experience for most university students in all disciplines. It is often accompanied by anxiety and uncertainty, which supervisors often struggle to understand and address. A community-driven approach to support dissertation writing based on semantic social scaffolding is presented here. The paper describes how a semantic wiki was tailored to develop a social writing environment to provide holistic support throughout the whole dissertation process. Based on initial evaluation studies, we discuss the benefits and pitfalls of semantics. The work contributes to a recent research strand that examines how to exploit new social computing technologies to develop effective learning environments.