Projects

Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL

The goal of this project is to leverage the power of open social learner modeling and adaptive navigation support in the context of the envisioned Personalized Assistant for Learning (PAL). Supported by the Distributed Learning Initiative contract W911QY13C0032 (2013-2016).

PAWS participation in ADL is focused in the development of MasteryGrids system. Mastery Grids is a visual-rich, interactive, adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open user modeling, and multi-type learning materials support. It presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level (mastery) by colored grids, tracks user activities and feedbacks dynamically and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. question, example) of learning materials.

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Ensemble: Enriching Communities and Collections to Support Education in Computing

Supported by NSF (2008-2014). In collaboration with Michael Spring. ==> more

Ensemble is a cross-university collaborative effort that aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources. more

Engaging Students in Online Reading Through Social Progress Visualization

Supported by Innovation in Education Award, University of Pittsburgh (2012-2013). ==>more

Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities

The project explored the use of personalization and mobile computing to increase user engagement in location-bound social systems. Supported by Google (2010-2012). ==>more

Personalization and social networking for short-term communities

The project explored a range of approaches, which can enable reliable social networking and personalization in communities, which exist for short period of time, like researchers attending a specific conference. Supported by NSF (2010-2011). In collaboration with Jung Sun Oh. ==>more

Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities

Supported by NSF (2010-2012). ==> more

Personalized Exploratorium for Database Courses

The project focused on developing and evaluation of a personalized educational environment for teaching Database courses.

Supported by NSF (2007-2008). In collaboration with Vladimir Zadorozhny. ==> more

GALE: Distillation with Utility-Optimized Transcription and Translation

Supported by DARPA (2005-2007) In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University and IBM ==> more

Personalized Access to Open Corpus Educational Resources through Adaptive Navigation Support and Adaptive Visualization

The project focused on developing technologies for personalized access to information based on adaptive navigation support, collaborative filtering, and information visualization.

Supported by NSF (2005-2010). more

Adaptive Explanatory Visualization for Learning Programming Concepts

The project focused on developing and studying adaptive explanatory visualization technologies for C and Java programming languages.

Supported by NSF (2004-2007). In collaboration with Michael Spring. ==> more

IMPROVE

IMproved PROgram Visualization for Education more

Individualized Exercises for Assessment and Self-Assessment of Programming Knowledge

The project focused developing and evaluating a personalized assessment technology for programming courses.

Supported by NSF (2003-2005). ==> more

Educational Software for Teaching and Learning Information Retrieval

Supported by Innovation in Education Award, University of Pittsburgh (2003-2004).

Supporting Learning from Examples in a Programming Course

Supported by Innovation in Education Award, University of Pittsburgh (2001-2002). more

Adaptive Electronic Textbooks for World Wide Web

Supported by NSF (1997-1998). In collaboration with John Anderson and Gerhard Weber more