Understanding public‐access cyberlearning projects using text mining and topic analysis

Abstract

The federal government has encouraged open access to publicly funded federal science research results, but it is unclear what knowledge can be gleaned from them and how the knowledge can be used to improve scientific research and shape federal research policies. In this article, we present the results of a preliminary study of cyberlearning projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that address these issues. Our work demonstrates that text‐mining tools can be used to partially automate the process of finding NSF's cyberlearning awards and characterizing the fine‐grained topics implicit in award abstracts. The methodology we have established to assess NSF's cyberlearning investments should generalize to other areas of research and other repositories of public‐access documents.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 1 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.