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SIGMOD
2003
ACM
118views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 7 months ago
Improving the Efficiency of Database-System Teaching
The education industry has a very poor record of productivity gains. In this brief article, I outline some of the ways the teaching of a college course in database systems could b...
Jeffrey D. Ullman
EDM
2008
193views Data Mining» more  EDM 2008»
13 years 9 months ago
Can we predict which groups of questions students will learn from?
In a previous study ([4]), we used the ASSISTment system to track student knowledge longitudinally over the course of a schools year, based upon each student using our system about...
Mingyu Feng, Neil T. Heffernan, Joseph E. Beck, Ke...
VR
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Designing and Evaluating a Haptic System for Biomolecular Education
In this paper we present an in situ evaluation of a haptic system, with a representative test population, we aim to determine what, if any, benefit haptics can have in a biomolec...
Petter Bivall Persson, Matthew D. Cooper, Lena A. ...
SIGUCCS
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Window to a new world: online freshman orientation via portal
In June 2003, Lehigh University embarked on an experiment to present incoming freshmen with an online pre-orientation experience using the SCT Luminis 3 Portal environment. Three ...
Sherri Yerk-Zwickl
AIED
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Interactive Paraphrase Training: The Development and Testing of an iSTART Module
Comprehension of science texts is challenging, particularly when the reader lacks the skills or knowledge necessary to fill in conceptual gaps in the text content. The iSTART syste...
Danielle S. McNamara, Chutima Boonthum, Christophe...