Andrew Chiarella, Athabasca University
Assistant Professor
Athabasca, Alberta
andrewc@athabascau.ca
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(186) 645-0446 ext. 0
(403) 217-3386
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My research focus is on the empirical study of learning and instruction in traditional school subjects, and in particular the development of educational technologies. My current research focuses on the study of social software for education, specifically social annotation systems. I have designed...
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Bio/Research
My research focus is on the empirical study of learning and instruction in traditional school subjects, and in particular the development of educational technologies. My current research focuses on the study of social software for education, specifically social annotation systems. I have designed and programmed a software application – called CoREAD – which aggregates the annotations (at the moment simple highlighting) of a community of readers and adds text signals (using font colour) to the text based on this community consensus. As the community of readers grows, these social text signals evolve in a self-organizing fashion. Essentially, these social text signals indicate which sections of the text were highlighted most often by the community of readers. It may be inferred that these sections of text are important to the community. Principles and characteristics of complex, self-organizing systems were used to design CoREAD.
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