HP Labs India

Technology is playing an increasing role in education around the world. The vast community of educational institutions, teachers and even students are leaders in sharing the resources they create. They are also leaders in the Web 2.0 effort.

The TiE effort will carry out research aimed at creating new ideas and techniques for use by this e-Community and enhancing their effectiveness.

This effort  is a collaboration between HP Labs India and the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.

Our area of research covers the following questions

•  How can we promote collaborative learning in student communities?
   
• How can we motivate and support students to work along the lines of Web 2.0 ideals, to create resources that will serve their own community?
   
• How can we identify the topics being discussed in a given item of text, without fitting it into a rigid classification system?
   
• Can we advance the art of educationally relevant “serious games”? Can we create middleware which will map quizzes into such games automatically?
   
• Can all these techniques work in a distance learning context as well, drawing upon geographically distributed contributors and serving geographically distributed users?

Research Threads:

• Mapping quizzes into competitive games|
   
• Promoting student collaboration, and harvesting of educational content from student-student interactions

Platforms in Use

1.   One of the platforms being used for this research is Moodle (see www.moodle.org ).  

2.   Another platform being used is HP Educenter, a video-content capture system which feeds a digital library, for providing on-demand, on-campus access to rich media content. HP Educenter was developed at HP Labs India.

Publications:

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