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QSIA–Online Collaborative Learning and Management of Knowledge Items

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Proposal for the IUCEL research funding The Center for the Study of the QSIA – online collaborative learning Information Society, University of Haifa QSIA – Online Collaborative Learning and Management of Knowledge Items Prof. Sheizaf Rafaeli Graduate School of Business Administration and Director, Center for the Study of the Information Society, University of Haifa. Email: sheizaf@rafaeli.net , Phone: 04-8249578 Miri Barak, M.Sc. Doctoral candidate at The Department of Education in Technology and Science, Technion and a researcher at the Center for the Study of the Information Society, University of Haifa. Email: bmiriam@tx.technion.ac.il , Phone: 04-8288292 Yuval Dan-Gur, M.Sc. Doctoral candidate at The Graduate School of Business and a member at the Center for the Study of the Information Society, University of Haifa. Email: s5a@zahav.net.il , Phone: 04-8288292 Eran Toch, B.A. Master candidate at the Management Engineering faculty, Technion and a member at the Center for the Study of the Information Society, University of Haifa. Email: eran@gsb.haifa.ac.il , Phone: 04-8288292 1
Proposal for the IUCEL research funding The Center for the Study of the QSIA – online collaborative learning Information Society, University of Haifa QSIA – Online Collaborative Learning and Management of Knowledge Items Introduction Online systems to support education started out as teacher-to-student communication arrangements. Naturally, they followed the topology of the traditional classroom. Second generation online systems are based on innovations in the direction and control of communication flow. For instance, great expectations are directed at systems that allow peer-teaching and student- to-student communication. New systems that allow teachers to share lesson plans are gaining prominence. QSIA (קושיה) - acronym for Questions, Study, Interaction, and Assessment, but also an eponym for “question” in Hebrew, is such a second generation system. QSIA is a web based and distributed system intended to serve as a collaborative tool for communities of practice in education at all levels. QSIA is an online, web-based, collaborative repository of knowledge items and recommendation system for their utilization at both the student, teacher, group and discipline level. QSIA is under development and implementation since the Spring of 2002, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Information Society and the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Foundation Institute for Interdisciplinary Application of Computer Science at the University of Haifa. QSIA is already being used in several Universities in Israel. Deployment is expected to continue to grow. This proposed research project seeks to investigate the possible usage and implementation of the QSIA system in higher education in Israel. We seek to investigate its effect on faculty collaboration and teaching and on students’ learning process. 2
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