Knowledge Tree

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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 Deployed Tools Adaptation Tools
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
INFSCI 0012 Introduction to Programming for Information Science Students WebEx, NavEx†, QuizPACK, QuizGuide†, cWADEIn, Knowledge Sea II CUMULATE, PERSEUS
INFSCI 0017 Object-Oriented Programming 1 for Information Science WebEx, QuizJET, QuizGuide†, jWADEIn CUMULATE, PERSEUS
NFSCI 1022 Database Management Systems/INFSCI 2710 Database Management WebEx, SQLKnoT, QuizGuide†, SQL Tutor CUMULATE, PERSEUS
INFSCI 2470 Interactive Systems Design WebEx, AnnotatEd CUMULATE, PERSEUS
School of Computing, Dublin City University Undergraduate Database Course WebEx, SQLKnoT CUMULATE, PERSEUS
Computer and Information Technology Program Community College of Allegheny County CIT 145 Programming in C, CIT-245 Data Structures and Programming: C++ WebEx, NavEx, QuizPACK, QuizGuide, cWADEIn, Knowledge Sea II CUMULATE


† this particular tool might be included or excluded based on specific offering of the course and/or goals of the study

Features

  • Authoring
    • Document and folder creation and management
    • WYSIWYG editor for documents/folder descriptions
    • Adding resources from RSS feeds (simplifies adding of large amounts of resources by reducing the entry to selecting from a combo-box)
    • 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
    • Note-taking
    • Ratings (under development)

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Standardization

Knowledge Tree structure is partially serialized as RDF. For more information refer to Knowledge Tree RDF Binding.

Contacts

Michael V. Yudelson