Tutorials
There are two outstanding half-day tutorials on Sunday 20th July, 2003:
Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (am)
Evaluation methods for learning environments (pm)
Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (am)
Peter Brusilovsky
Department of Information Science and
Telecommunications School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Overview
Web-based education (WBE) is currently a hot research and development
area. A challenging research goal is the development of adaptive
Web-based educational applications. The goal of the tutorial is to
provide a brief review of the work performed so far in his area and
some important information for those who want to implement their own
systems. The review is centered on different adaptive technologies
that are essentially different ways to add adaptive functionality to
an educational system. In the tutorial we will analyze what kind of
technologies are available right now, provide a number of practical
examples, and discuss how the reviewed technologies can be
implemented on the Web. I will also discuss what is the place of
these technologies in large-scale Web-based education, i.e., what and
how can work in large scale WBE classrooms today.
About the presenter
Peter Brusilovsky has been working in the area of ITS for 15 years.
Since 1993 he has participated in the development of several adaptive
Web-based instructional systems and ITS including ELM-ART and
InterBook. Later was involved in developing practical Web-based
courses and systems as a Director of Computer Managed Instruction at
Carnegie Technology Education. Currently he continues his research on
adaptive Web-based instructional systems as a faculty at School of
Information Sciences,
University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Brusilovsky is an author of several
review papers on adaptive hypermedia, Web-based ITS, and Web-based
education. He has prepared a number of successful tutorials for
various conferences including User Modeling, ITS, EDMEDIA, WebNet,
Interact, as well as for Carnegie Mellon Summer School.
Evaluation methods for learning environments (pm)
Shaaron Ainsworth
School of Psychology,
ESRC Centre for Research in Development,
Instruction and Training,
University of Nottingham
Materials
Reading List
Tutorial Slides
Tutorial Exercise
Overview
The importance of evaluating AIED systems is increasingly recognised.
Yet, there is no single right way to evaluate a complex learning environment.
This tutorial will emphasise how to develop a practical toolkit of
evaluation methodologies by examining classic case studies of
evaluations, show how techniques from other
areas can be applied in AIED and examine common mistakes.
Key Issues
- techniques for formative and summative evaluation goals of evaluation
(e.g. usability, learning outcomes, learning efficiency, informing
theory);
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choosing methods for data capture and analysis
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the nature of
the control (e.g. classroom teachers, conventional CBT, within system);
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the costs and benefits of evaluating in the wild;
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the credit assignment
problem in evaluation, assessing the added benefit of AI.
Audience
This is an introductory tutorial intended for researchers with a variety of
back grounds.
Presentation
Slides interspersed with demonstrations and discussions.
About the presenter
Shaaron Ainsworth has a background in Psychology and Artificial
Intelligence and holds a joint appointment in the School of Psychology
and Learning Science Research Institute at the University of
Nottingham. She has been actively involved in evaluating learning
environments for over 10 years and has worked with systems in all
levels of education from kindergarten through school to adult training.
In that time, she has made pretty much every mistake you can make in
evaluating learning environments.
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