%0 Journal Article
%J Journal on Educational Resources in Computing
%D 2006
%T Moving Digital Libraries into the Student Learning Space: the GetSmart Experience
%A Marshall,Byron
%A Chen,Hsinchun
%A Shen,Rao
%A Fox,Edward  A.
%K Accounting
%K BIS
%X The GetSmart system was built to support theoretically sound learning processes in a digital library environment by integrating course management, digital library, and concept mapping components to support a constructivist, six-step, information search process. In the fall of 2002 more than 100 students created 1400 concept maps as part of selected computing classes offered at the University of Arizona and Virginia Tech. Those students conducted searches, obtained course information, created concept maps, collaborated in acquiring knowledge, and presented their knowledge representations. This article connects the design elements of the GetSmart system to targeted concept-map-based learning processes, describes our system and research testbed, and analyzes our system usage logs. Results suggest that students did in fact use the tools in an integrated fashion, combining knowledge representation and search activities. After concept mapping was included in the curriculum, we observed improvement in students' online quiz scores. Further, we observed that students in groups collaboratively constructed concept maps with multiple group members viewing and updating map details.
%B Journal on Educational Resources in Computing
%V 6
%8 2006
%G eng
%U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1217862.1217864
%N 1
%2 a
%4 648214528
%$ 648214528

%0 Conference Paper
%B Proceedings of the 2003 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003), May 2003, Houston, Texas
%D 2003
%T Knowledge Management and E-Learning: the GetSmart Experience
%A Marshall,Byron
%A Zhang,Yiwen
%A Chen,Hsinchun
%A Lally,Ann
%A Shen,Rao
%A Fox,Edward
%A Cassel,Lillian
%K Accounting
%K BIS
%X The National Science Digital Library (NSDL), launched in December 2002, is emerging as a center of innovation in digital libraries as applied to education. As a part of this extensive project, the GetSmart system was created to apply knowledge management techniques in a learning environment. The design of the system is based on an analysis of learning theory and theinformation search process. Its key notion is the integration of search tools and curriculum support with  concept mapping. More than 100 students at the University of Arizona and Virginia Tech used the system  in the fall of 2002. A database of more than one  thousand student-prepared concept maps has been  collected with more than forty thousand relationships  expressed in semantic, graphical, node-link  representations. Preliminary analysis of the collected  data is revealing interesting knowledge representation  patterns.
%B Proceedings of the 2003 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2003), May 2003, Houston, Texas
%8 2003
%G eng
%U http://people.oregonstate.edu/~marshaby/Papers/Marshall_JCDL2003_GetSmart.pdf
%2 b
%4 2606821377
%$ 2606821377