PedConnect: An intelligent assistant for teacher social networking

Jihie Kim, Yu Han Chang, Sen Cai, Siddharth Jain

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Abstract

Social networking has gained immense traction in many areas, including teaching and learning. Networking sites for teachers aim to facilitate teacher communication and information sharing, but fall short of their potential. In order to support more effective use of online resources and better communication among teachers, we develop a suite of new user modeling and recommendation capabilities within a middle school teacher networking site. We foster collaboration among novice and experienced teachers when they share similar interests, enabling new mentoring relationships, and promote the use of relevant educational resources. We illustrate our approach with an implemented system called PedConnect that analyzes user activities and presents intelligent suggestions for collaboration and resource use.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIUI'12 - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Pages71-74
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 17th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI'12 - Lisbon, Portugal
Duration: 14 Feb 201217 Feb 2012

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Conference

Conference2012 17th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI'12
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLisbon
Period14/02/1217/02/12

Keywords

  • Teacher social networking
  • Topic modeling
  • User profiling

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