TY - GEN
T1 - BBookX
T2 - 25th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW 2016
AU - Pursel, Bart
AU - Liang, Chen
AU - Wang, Shuting
AU - Wu, Zhaohui
AU - Williams, Kyle
AU - Brautigam, Benjamin
AU - Saul, Sherwyn
AU - Williams, Hannah
AU - Bowen, Kyle
AU - Giles, C. Lee
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2).
PY - 2016/4/11
Y1 - 2016/4/11
N2 - We describe BBookX, a web-based tool that uses a human-computing approach to facilitate the creation of open source textbooks. The goal of BBookX is to create a system that can search various Open Educational Resource (OER) repositories such as Wikipedia, based on a set of user-generated criteria, and return various resources that can be combined, remixed, and re-used to support specific learning goals. As BBookX is a work-in-progress, we are in the midst of a design-based research study, where user testing guided multiple rounds of iteration in the design of the user interface (UI) as well as the query engine. From an interface perspective, the challenges we present are the matching of the UI to users' mental models from similar systems, as well as educating users how to best work with the algorithms in an iterative manner to find and refine content for inclusion into open textbooks.
AB - We describe BBookX, a web-based tool that uses a human-computing approach to facilitate the creation of open source textbooks. The goal of BBookX is to create a system that can search various Open Educational Resource (OER) repositories such as Wikipedia, based on a set of user-generated criteria, and return various resources that can be combined, remixed, and re-used to support specific learning goals. As BBookX is a work-in-progress, we are in the midst of a design-based research study, where user testing guided multiple rounds of iteration in the design of the user interface (UI) as well as the query engine. From an interface perspective, the challenges we present are the matching of the UI to users' mental models from similar systems, as well as educating users how to best work with the algorithms in an iterative manner to find and refine content for inclusion into open textbooks.
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U2 - 10.1145/2872518.2891077
DO - 10.1145/2872518.2891077
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85018453714
T3 - WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
SP - 929
EP - 933
BT - WWW 2016 Companion - Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on World Wide Web
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 11 May 2016 through 15 May 2016
ER -