AprendIS: A Tool for (in)Formal Learning in Health Informatics

The popularity of wikis has increased in the last few years, particularly in education. By allowing collaboration and information sharing, wikis can be used as a tool for lifelong learning. Health Informatics, as a field in permanent transformation, offers particular challenges that can be better ta...

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Published inProcedia technology Vol. 16; pp. 1367 - 1373
Main Author Cruz-Correia, Ricardo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 2014
Subjects
Collaboration
Collective Intelligence
Formal Learning
Informal Learning
MediaWiki
Semantic MediaWiki
Semantic Web
Wiki
Semantic Web
Semantic MediaWiki
Collective Intelligence
Collaboration
Wiki
Formal Learning
Informal Learning
MediaWiki
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Summary:The popularity of wikis has increased in the last few years, particularly in education. By allowing collaboration and information sharing, wikis can be used as a tool for lifelong learning. Health Informatics, as a field in permanent transformation, offers particular challenges that can be better tackled if access to centralized information and support to collaboration is possible. By adding semantics’ strengths to wikis’ features, such thing is possible. This paper aims to present the development of a Semantic MediaWiki on Health Informatics - aprendIS: a place for information and knowledge sharing, and virtual collaboration of the Portuguese speaking community. A survey has been conducted on students and teachers in health informatics in Portugal and Brazil to evaluate the need for a wiki in health informatics and to assess the most important subjects to address in such a platform, and a first structure of the Semantic MediaWiki was developed, based on the opinion of the respondents. Results show that more than half of 11% of respondents are interested in contributing with content and in using the wiki, and that there is a consensus in what the respondents expect to find in the wiki: the most voted subject was Health Information Systems. According to the survey conducted, students and teachers of Health Informatics are definitely interested in a Semantic MediaWiki such as aprendIS. Our proposal builds such a tool according to the needs and wants of those students and teachers.
ISSN:2212-0173
2212-0173
DOI:10.1016/j.protcy.2014.10.154