Learning by foraging: The impact of social tags on knowledge acquisition

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5794 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 254-266

  Held, Christoph ^a   Cress, Ulrike ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Information foraging; Learning; Spreading activation; Tag cloud; Tagging

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; INFORMATION FORAGING; INFORMATION SEARCH; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TAGGING SYSTEMS;

E-LEARNING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; THESAURI; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EDUCATION;

EID: 70450212911     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04636-0_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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