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Adequacy analysis of learning resources in adult education
| Resumo: | The present document identifies and details the research and development held under the scope of a MSc Thesis pertaining to the scientific area of pedagogic tools for teaching support, ontolo gies and learning resources. This masters thesis in Informatics Engineering was developed in the University of Minho, Braga. The purpose of the project is to study the learning process of adults and how it connects to Learn ing Resources (LRs) in order to understand if a learning resource used to teach Computational Thinking (CT) to children, is suitable for adult learners. This approach ought to take into account adult learning theory to set its requirements, as well as CT principles and learning resources classification. To this end, an approach to the Adequacy of Learning Resources in Adult Education was created which comprises the ontology OntoAL that describes in detail the domain of Adult Learning (AL) including the theory of AL and a classification of both the adult learner and the learning resources. This ontology was developed in OntoDL and Prolog. In addition, we analyze the experiment conducted as part of the validation of this approach and the OntoAL ontology. Therefore, in this document, it is presented the state of the art pertaining to this field, exploring the concepts of learning resources, computational thinking, ontologies and adult learning and education. Furthermore, it is rendered an introduction of the subject and the project, detailing the context of the problem, the objectives to be accomplished and the research hypothesis of said thesis. Next, it is presented the state of the art regarding Computational Thinking, Adult Learning and Education, Ontologies and Learning Resources. Thereafter, it is put forward the work proposal. Then it is introduced the OntoAL ontology in both OntoDL and Prolog (detailing the process of its development and the choices made), the questionnaires that were created as well as the analysis of the responses that we obtained. Lastly, there are listed the conclusions and the future work. |
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| Autores principais: | Barbosa, Diana Ribeiro |
| Assunto: | Computational thinking Learning resources Ontology Adult learning Gamebased learning OntoDL Prolog Pensamento computacional Recursos educativos Ontologias Ensino de adultos Ensino baseado em jogos |
| Ano: | 2021 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | The present document identifies and details the research and development held under the scope of a MSc Thesis pertaining to the scientific area of pedagogic tools for teaching support, ontolo gies and learning resources. This masters thesis in Informatics Engineering was developed in the University of Minho, Braga. The purpose of the project is to study the learning process of adults and how it connects to Learn ing Resources (LRs) in order to understand if a learning resource used to teach Computational Thinking (CT) to children, is suitable for adult learners. This approach ought to take into account adult learning theory to set its requirements, as well as CT principles and learning resources classification. To this end, an approach to the Adequacy of Learning Resources in Adult Education was created which comprises the ontology OntoAL that describes in detail the domain of Adult Learning (AL) including the theory of AL and a classification of both the adult learner and the learning resources. This ontology was developed in OntoDL and Prolog. In addition, we analyze the experiment conducted as part of the validation of this approach and the OntoAL ontology. Therefore, in this document, it is presented the state of the art pertaining to this field, exploring the concepts of learning resources, computational thinking, ontologies and adult learning and education. Furthermore, it is rendered an introduction of the subject and the project, detailing the context of the problem, the objectives to be accomplished and the research hypothesis of said thesis. Next, it is presented the state of the art regarding Computational Thinking, Adult Learning and Education, Ontologies and Learning Resources. Thereafter, it is put forward the work proposal. Then it is introduced the OntoAL ontology in both OntoDL and Prolog (detailing the process of its development and the choices made), the questionnaires that were created as well as the analysis of the responses that we obtained. Lastly, there are listed the conclusions and the future work. |
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