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). The project is supported by the Distributed Learning Initiative contract W911QY13C0032.

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

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Personalization and social networking for short-term communities

The project explores 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.

AKA: Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities

This NSF-supported project aims to explore personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, the project will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies.

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Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities

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Personalization and social networking for short-term communities

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Personalized Exploratorium for 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

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Adaptive Explanatory Visualization for Learning Programming Concepts

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

IMPROVE

IMproved PROgram Visualization for Education more

ADAPT²

ADAPT² (read adapt-square) - Advanced Distributed Architecture for Personalized Teaching and Training - is a framework targeted at providing personalization and adaptation services for developers of content that lacks personalization. more

Individualized Exercises for Assessment and Self-Assessment of Programming Knowledge

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