Front Page
RESEARCH TOPICS
Ethnocomputing
Virtual Studies in Computer Science
Kids' Club
Culture Sensitive IT-Education for Developing Countries
Thinking Tools for the Net
Software Visualization & Jeliot
Development Project for Technology Education
String Matching Algorithms for Educational Technology
[official page to apper later]
WHO & WHAT
People @ EdTech
Publications @ EdTech
CONFERENCES
ICALT 2004, August 30 - September 1, 2004
2nd International Workshop on Technology for Education in Developing Countries, August 31, 2004.
3rd International
Summer School on Educational Technology, August 23 - 27, 2004.
3rd Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education - Koli Calling, 2003
Second International Conference on Educational Technology in Cultural Context, 2003
2nd International Summer School on Educational Technology, 2003
2nd Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education - Koli Calling, 2002
International Conference on Educational Technology in Cultural Context, 2002
International
Summer School on Educational Technology, 2002
1st Annual Finnish / Baltic Sea Conference on Computer Science Education - Koli Calling, 2001
1st International Program Visualization Workshop, 2000
University of Joensuu
Department of Computer Science @ University of Joensuu
Academy of Finland
European Commission
European Social Fund
TEKES - National Technology Agency of Finland
THINKING TOOLS FOR THE NET
Project's web-pages:
http://cs.joensuu.fi/pages/avt/
NOTE! This project has ended on August, 2003. A new project, MirrorWolf, has been started to continue the work presented here.
The current trend is to convert conventional static profiles or collections of documents to web pages. TTN focuses its research on providing intelligent and interactive portfolios, accessible even from mobile phones. Intelligent portfolios refers to digital portfolios which have been expanded with an intelligent user interface and a mechanism to support automatic communication between portfolios located on separate servers. This means that software makes decisions by itself and is capable of producing summaries of many kinds, tutor or even counsel the user.
SAMPLE
PROJECTS
TTN is developing Concept Mapping, Visualization
Tools and String Searching Machines:
- A Learning Bridge Prototype
For learner concepts are islands and connections between pieces of information are bridges that bind pieces of information to knowledge. This prototype helps learner to find correct bindings between information and intelligently supports learner in his trouble areas.
- Visual Tools for Learning Communities
These are visual tools supporting a social learning process that apply or extend existing graphical libraries or developing novel cognitive instruments for social learning environments.
- Automatic Evaluations of Essays
The Java-based essay grading system is based on Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). LSA is a corpus-based statistical method, related to neural network models, which provides a means of comparing the semantic similarity between a source and target text. LSA can also be considered as a computational model of human knowledge representation. Research has showed that the method is able to simulate learning and several other psycholinguistic phenomena.
The project is funded by the European Commission and Finnish National Technology Agency, TEKES and three companies: Karjalan Tietovalta / Novo Group, Discendum, Sordino Information Systems
Gaetano La Russa, firstname.lastname@cs.joensuu.fi