Discovering academics' key learning connections

Critical Connections: Health and Academics

BACKGROUND While it is a national priority to support the health and education of students, these sectors must better align, integrate, and collaborate to achieve this priority. This article summarizes the literature on the connection between health and academic achievement using the Whole School, Whole Community, and Whole Child (WSCC) framework as a way to address health-related barriers to l...

Discovering Unknown Connections - the DBpedia Relationship Finder

The Relationship Finder is a tool for exploring connections between objects in a Semantic Web knowledge base. It offers a new way to get insights about elements in an ontology, in particular for large amounts of instance data. For this reason, we applied the idea to the DBpedia data set, which contains an enormous amount of knowledge extracted from Wikipedia. We describe the workings of the Rel...

The Lifelong Learning Iceberg of Information Systems Academics: A Study of On-Going Formal and Informal Learning by Academics

This article describes a study that examined the lifelong learning of information systems academics in relation to their normal work. It begins by considering the concept of lifelong learning, its relationship to real-life learning and that lifelong learning should encompass the whole spectrum of formal, non-formal and informal learning. Most world governments had recognised the importance of s...

Discovering contextual connections between biological processes using high-throughput data

Discovering Meaningful Connections between Resources in the Web of Data

We will show that semantically annotated paths lead to discovering meaningful, non-trivial relations and connections between multiple resources in large online datasets such as the Web of Data. Graph algorithms have always been key in pathfinding applications (e.g., navigation systems). They make optimal use of available computation resources to find paths in structured data. Applying these alg...