Can Online Learning Materials Improve Student Access to Digital Libraries?

Willis, Alistair (2005). Can Online Learning Materials Improve Student Access to Digital Libraries? Technical Report 2005/10; Department of Computing, The Open University.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0001602e

Abstract

We present preliminary investigations into how text alignment techniques can be used to align the content of undergraduate textbooks against the journal papers from which they were developed, or which may be recommended further reading. We propose that such methods could be used to improve student access to academic material, particularly in distance learning environments. We show that our initial techniques determine which passages of textbooks align against appropriate academic documents, and consider what techniques might be needed for the required finer grained alignment.

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