While crowdsourcing video content on platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, and TikTok has significantly improved free knowledge sharing, the generated content is often highly disconnected. This lack of structure fails to provide clear learning pathways, making it difficult for learners to start from an arbitrary video and systematically achieve their educational objectives.

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Connecting the knowledge acquired from courses, books, and other sources can be challenging as authors and instructors often focus on making their material coherent within the scope of their work, disregarding its coherence in relation to other courses, books, or resources that the reader may have encountered earlier.

Disconnected knowledge entities in Online Communities

- Emphasizing links
- Using indexes
- Citing references
- Search Engines

Solutions to disconnected knowledge entities

In a knowledge dissemination environment, where knowledge entities are disconnected, it is more likely for contributors to create knowledge entities that were previously produced by other contributors. This is due to the disconnectedness of the knowledge entities, which makes it very difficult to identify the related entities that were previously added to the system.

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