A web-based system for connecting undergraduate students and researchers via textbooks for multi- disciplinary, research-oriented education
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چکیده
An application of the University on Textbooks (UoT) system to a web-based platform for supporting organic growth of an knowledge network related to sustainability science is described. The UoT system, which aims to help university students learn about cutting-edge research at their university through the medium of textbooks, uses a description logics reasoner to generate semantic links between ontology-based descriptors of topics in textbooks and of research articles. Those semantic links enable students to navigate between well-structured introductory materials provided by textbooks and advanced research on specific topics presented in research articles. The new UoT system maps sections from the book “Vision 2050: A Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth” to research articles and web pages of researchers at the University of Tokyo studying issues related to sustainability, energy and materials. The system is described, and implications for supporting education in highly multidisciplinary subjects such as sustainability science are discussed.
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