A Teaching-Style Based Social Network for Didactic Building and Sharing

Nowadays, teachers tend to build their own didactic local repository composed by learning objects retrieved from web repositories or, in most cases, by self-made didactic material. In this way they do not share their teaching experience, loosing a precious shortcut to a fast professional update and to an improvement of their teaching activity. In this paper we address the problem of helping teachers to retrieve didac- tic material from a repository through a didactic social network where teachers with similar Teaching Styles, can help each other in retrieving educational material. To this aim a teaching-styles based social network is built following the Grasha TS paradigm. We present a first evaluation of the network embedded in a web application.

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