[IAEP] personalisation and collaboration

[Maria Droujkova]

David,

For frameworks, you may want to look at "achievement systems" and
"reputation systems" (e.g. karma on slashdot). I just helped a colleague
with his grant proposal about adding achievement systems to a peer
review-based authoring environment, Expertiza, so we did some literature
review for that. It's a well-developed topic in gaming and in internet-based
community studies. It involves creating an "economy" of good deeds,
basically. In more advanced systems, users can define or co-define which
deeds are considered "good."

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On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:48 PM, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com>wrote:

> Having pondered this a bit more, I came up with a practical example. Lets
> say we have a student in Uruguay, lets call him Fernando, and lets say we
> have a student in the UK, lets call her Suzy. Suzy's Spanish is not great,
> as she hasn't had the chance to delve into it practically, nor is she
> getting the right idea about how everyday Spanish is used in Spanish
> countries, having relied on terrible cliched examples of her antiquated text
> books. Fernando's English is not very good, seeing as the only English he is
> subjected to are pirate movies he buys from the local market, so he's
> learned more slang than real English. His school isn't even teaching
> English, but he desperately wants to learn it.
>
> Colabot knows both of these users, as it has analysed every willing user's
> e-portfolio, and knows they would compliment each other perfectly say by
> sharing the Speak activity. Colabot could suggest times at which these 2
> students could meet virtually and collaborate in order to improve their
> language skills. Colabot could keep track of their on going meetings,
> showing the amount of hours spent on language learning. Colabot could even
> give out an award or recognition after the students had spent X amount of
> hours learning together.
>
> The great thing about this example is that it seems to me to be pure
> construcionism with technology at its simplest and its best. The 2 students
> are teachers to each other, and colabot is there purely in the capacity a
> teacher normally should be, to guide the learning process.
>
> kind Regards,
> David Van Assche
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:00 AM, David Van Assche<dvanassche at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Something has been in the back of my head for a while now, ever since
>> I've
>> > seen the impressive capabilities of being able to share an activity with
>> > your neighbourhood. Being able to cooperatively use applications brings
>> a
>> > new level of playability to it all, and it reminds me of when I first
>> saw
>> > the ability for a computer game to be 'multi-player.'This gave it an
>> extra
>> > dimension, and with it came the idea of awards for completing certain
>> > things, which would be displayed in your dashoard somewhere.The award
>> system
>> > seems even more relevant for education than it did for games. We'v
>> aleady
>> > mentioned the benefits of an award sysem so I'm not going to regugitate
>> > that, but what hasnt''t really been spoken about is, how and what kind
>> of
>> > personal details should the journal store and share. I see this as a
>> > customisable option, something that can be as simple as only sharing
>> first
>> > names, or sharing the name of your pet, your favorite colors and foods,
>> the
>> > languages you speak.
>> >
>> > This detailed information about a person is extremely valuable to the
>> > underlying system, as it can potentially match people against each
>> other.
>> > This would allow for some interesting possibilities when it comes to
>> > collaboration, such as the system suggesting users to
>> challenge/collaborate
>> > with based on personal information. I thought about having a robot that
>> > lives on an irc channel capable of helping with the collaboration
>> procedure,
>> > as well as listing achievements, giving data on which users want to
>> > collaborate, giving help on how collaboration works with particular
>> > activities, listing which servers have open collaboration, showing the
>> most
>> > used/highest rated collaborating activities, etc.
>> >
>> > I havent thought about this too much in depth, but I know coding a bot
>> is
>> > not too hard. I see it as an extension to the speak AI, and
>> encouragement to
>> > join irc. We can even get the bot to accept uploads of raw learning
>> > materials categorised by subject, which can then be used by content
>> > creators. it itself could give out quizzes based on particular subjects,
>> or
>> > interesting pieces of information/knowledge. It could be taught new
>> > information, by feeding it localised knowledge. It would be important to
>> > know where we set the limits to what it can do.
>> >
>> > Just some food for thought...
>> >
>> > David (nubae) Van Assche
>> >
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>> In general, the idea of bots living in the Sugar neighborhood is a
>> theme we haven't explored very much. It would be nice to come up with
>> a simple, consistent framework for creating such a resource. Making it
>> available through IRC as well is a cool idea.
>>
>> -walter
>>
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>> Walter Bender
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