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ERIC Number: EJ1010443
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Jun
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0266-4909
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Harnessing Collective Knowledge Inherent in Tag Clouds
Cress, U.; Held, C.
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, v29 n3 p235-247 Jun 2013
Tagging systems represent the conceptual knowledge of a community. We experimentally tested whether people harness this collective knowledge when navigating through the Web. As a within-factor we manipulated people's prior knowledge (no knowledge vs. prior knowledge that was congruent/incongruent to the collective knowledge inherent in the tags). As between-factor we manipulated whether people had tag clouds available or not. In line with the Information Foraging Theory and with the Co-Evolution Model of individual learning and collective knowledge building, we found that people's prior knowledge and tag clouds influenced their navigation. Tags which were congruent with people's prior knowledge had a higher probability of being selected. A knowledge test showed that participants adapted their individual conceptual knowledge to the collective knowledge. This incidental learning shows that people harness collective knowledge just by navigation with tag clouds. (Contains 1 table and 3 figures.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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