Knowledge Tree

Overview

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Knowledge Tree is a link aggregating portal. It presents content structured according to the folder-document paradigm. Knowledge Tree provides authentication and authorization and implements a simplified form of access control. It supports collaborative authoring and social annotation. Knowledge Tree is primarily oriented towards ADAPT² architecture.

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Usage

Knowledge Tree has been intensively used as learning portal in the following courses

School

Course

Learning tools

Adaptation tools

[School of Inf.Sci. University of Pittsburgh]

IS0012

WebEx

CUMULATE

IS0012

WebEx

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Features

Authoring
- Document and folder creation and management
- WYSIWYG editor for documents/folder descriptions
- Adding resources from RSS feeds
- Configuration of access control (view,edit,add)
- (Conditional) hiding of folders and documents
Adaptation
- Tacking user navigation via CUMULATE
- (Conditional) adaptive navigation support via PERSEUS
Social/Community based
- Note-taking
- Ratings (under development)