CS6604: Relevant Reasearch Papers and Websites

Background and Pedagogy

• Hundhausen, et al. (JVLC 2002 "Meta-study"): "A Meta-Study of Algorithm Visualization Effectiveness"
• R. B.-B. Levy and M. Ben-Ari (2007), " We work so hard and they don't use it: Acceptance of software tools by teachers" in Proceedings of 12th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, 246-250.
• E. Fouh, M. Akbar, and C.A. Shaffer, "The Role of Visualization in Computer Science Education" (.pdf), Computers in the Schools 29, Issue 1-2, 2012 95-117.
• J.A. Kaminski, V.M. Sloutsky, and A.F. Heckler, "The Advantage of Abstract Examples in Learning Math" (.pdf), Science 320, April 25, 2008, 454-455. See also these replies.
• R.E. Clark and D.F. Feldon, " Five Common but Questionable Principles of Multimedia Learning" in Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia learning, R. Mayer (ed), 2005.
• Papastergiou, M. (2009). Digital game-based learning in high school computer science education: Impact on educational effectiveness and student motivation. Computers & Education, 52(1), 1-12.
• Nelson, M.A., Geist, M.R., Miller, R.L., Streveler, R.A., and Olds, B.M. (2007, April). How to create a concept inventory: The thermal and transport concept inventory. In Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

"Flipped" or "Inside-Out" Model of Instruction

• D.J. Waldorf and L.T. Schlemer, "The Inside-Out Classroom: A Win-Win-Win Strategy for Teaching with Technology", Computers in Education Journal 3, 1(January-March) 2012, 37-46.

Traditional Lecture vs. Online and Blended Courses

• A.P. Rovai and H.M. Jordan, Blended Learning and Sense of Community: A comparative analysis with traditional and fully online graduate courses International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning 5, 2(August, 2004), 1-13.
• N.W. Coppola, S.R. Hiltz, and N. Rotter, Becoming a Virtual Professor: Pedagogical Roles and ALN, in Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2001.
• S.S. Easton, Clarifying the Instructorbs Role in Online Distance Learning, Communication Education 52, 2(April 2003), 87-105.
• A. Hawkins, M.K. Barbour, and C.R. Graham, Strictly Business: Teacher Perceptions of Interaction in Virtual Schooling, The Journal of Distance Education 25, 2(2011).
• K. Swan, Virtual interaction: Design factors affecting student satisfaction and perceived learning in asynchronous online courses, Distance Education 22, 2(2001).
• K. Swan, Building Learning Communities in Online Courses: the importance of interaction, Education, Communication, & Information 2, 1(2002).
• T. Morgan, Online Classroom or Community-in-the-Making? Instructor Conceptualizations and Teaching Presence in International Online Contexts The Journal of Distance Education 25, 1(2011).

Motivation Issues

• Emily Schneider and René F. Kizilcec. 2014. "Why did you enroll in this course?": Developing a standardized survey question for reasons to enroll. In Proceedings of the first ACM conference on Learning @ scale conference (L@S '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 147-148.
• Breslow, L. B., Pritchard, D. E., DeBoer, J., Stump, G. S., Ho, A. D., & Seaton, D. T. (2013). Studying learning in the worldwide classroom: Research into edX's first MOOC. Research & Practice in Assessment 8, 13-25.

Learning Styles vs. Cognitive Theory

• R.M. Felder, "Index of Learning Styles," available here
• R.M. Felder and L.K. Silverman, " Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education", Engineering Education 78, 7(1988), 674-681.
• Pashler, H. McDaniel, M. Rohrer, D. and Bjork, R., " Learning styles concepts and evidence", Psychological Science in the Public Interest 9, 3 (2008).
• Dunn, R.S. and Dunn, K.J., " Teaching students through their individual learning styles: A practical approach, (1978).
• Felder, R.M. and Spurlin, J., " Applications, reliability and validity of the index of learning styles", International Journal of Engineering Education 21, 1 (2005).
• Coffield, F. and others, " Learning styles and pedagogy in post-16 learning: A systematic and critical review", (2004).
• R.E. Mayer, " Cognitive Theory and the Design of Multimedia Instruction: An Example of the Two-Way Street Between Cognition and Instruction", in New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Spring 2002, 55-71.
• Massa, L.J. and Mayer, R.E., " Testing the ATI hypothesis: Should multimedia instruction accommodate verbalizer-visualizer cognitive style?", Learning and Individual Differences 16, 4(2006).
• R.E. Mayer, " Applying the Science of Learning: Evidence-Based Principles for the Design of Multimedia Instruction American Psychologist, 63(8), 2008, 760-769.

No Significant Difference

• T. Russell, The No Significant Difference Phenomenon: A Comparative Research Annotated Bibliography on Technology or Distance Education, 5th Edition, Published by IDECC, 2001.
• S.B. Conger, If There Is No Significant Difference, Why Should We Care?
• D.G. Oblinger and B.L. Hawkins, The Myth about No Significant Difference.

Current Technology: eBook readers and tablets

• L.C. Larson, "Digital Readers: The Next Chapter in E-Book Reading and Response", The Reading Teacher 64, 1(2010), 15-22.
• C. Gibson and F. Gibb, "An evaluation of second-generation ebook readers", The Electronic Library 29, 3(2011), 303-319.
• textbooks for iPad and Apple iBook Authoring App
• Will Textbooks for iPad Change Education?
• 5 Ways iBooks Author Changes the Education Landscape
• iBooks is not the education revolution you've been looking for

Automated Assessment

• Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Effective Practice with e-Assessment, 2007.
• S.H. Edwards, Using Software Testing to Move Students from Trial-and- Error to Reflection-in-Action (.pdf), Proceedings of SIGCSE’04, 2004, 26-30.
• S.H. Edwards, Using Test-Driven Development in the Classroom: Providing Students with Automatic, Concrete Feedback on Performance (.pdf), Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technologies and Applications (EISTA’03), 2003, 421–426.
• V. Karavirta, A. Korhonen, and L. Malmi, "On the Use of Resubmissions in Automatic Assessment System" (.pdf), Computer Science Education, 16(3), September 2006, 229-240.
• K.M. Ala-Mutka, A Survey of Automated Assessment Approaches for Programming Assignments, Computer Science Education 15, 2(2005), 83-102.
• P. Ihantola, T. Ahoniemi, V. Karavirta, and O. Seppala, Review of Recent Systems for Automatic Assessment of Programming Assignments, Proceedings of the 10th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2010, 86-93.
• A.N. Kumar, The Effectiveness of Visualization for Learning Expression Evaluation Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 15), 362-367.

eBooks for Children

• O. Korat and A. Shamir, Electronic books versus adult readers: effects on children's emergent literacy as a function of social class, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (2007), 23, 248-259.
• S. Maynard and E. Cheyne, Can electronic textbooks help children to learn? The Electronic Library 23, 1(2005), 103-115.
• A.K. Moody, Using Electronic Books in the Classroom to Enhance Emergent Literacy Skills in Young Children, Journal of Literacy and Technology 11, 4(November 2010), 23-52.
• O. Korat, Reading electronic books as a support for vocabulary, story comprehension and word reading in kindergarten and first grade, Computers & Education 55 (2010) 24-31

Algorithm and Program Visualization: Background Papers

• Naps, et al. (ITiCSE WG 2002): "Exploring the Role of Visualization and Engagement in computer science education"
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• Naps, et al. (ITiCSE WG 2003): "Evaluating the Educational Impact of Visualization"
• Urquiza-Fuentes and Velazquez-Iturbide (2009) "A Survey of Successful Evaluations of Program Visualization and Algorithm Animation Systems"
• Saraiya, et al. (SIGCSE 2004): "Effective Features of Algorithm Visualizations"
• Shaffer, et al. (TOCE 2010): "Algorithm Visualization: The State of the Field"
• E. Fouh, M. Akbar, and C.A. Shaffer, The Role of Visualization in Computer Science Education (DOI, PDF), Computers in the Schools 29, Issue 1-2, 2012, 95--117.
• Laakso, T.R.M.J., Kaila, E., and Salakoski, T. (2008). Effectiveness of program visualization: A case study with the ViLLE tool. Journal of Information Technology Education, 7.

AV Software and Websites

• AlgoViz Project Homepage
• OpenDSA
• Virginia Tech Hashing Tutorial
• TRAKLA2 Exercises, which pioneered the concept of "proficiency exercises" for algorithms. See for example the Heap Tutorial.
• D. Galles, Data Structure Visualization
• jFLAP
• TRAKLA2

Internationalization

• A. Marcus and E.W. Gould, " Crosscurrents: Cultural Dimensions and Global Web User-Interface Design", interactions, July-August 2000, 32-46.
• M. Kam, D. Ramachandran, V. Devanathan, A. Tewari, and J. Canny, Localized Iterative Design for Language Learning in Underdeveloped Regions: The PACE Framework, Proceedings of CHI 2007, 1097-1106.
• W. Barber and A. Badre, Culturability: The Merger of Culture and Usability, in Proceedings of 4th Conference on Human Factors & the Web, June, 1998.
• Rößling G., Translator: A Package for Internationalization for Java-based Applications and GUIs, in Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCSE/SIGCUE International Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2006), Bologna, Italy: ACM Press; 2006. 312

Multimedia Courseware for Medical Training

• M. Maleck, et al, Do Computers teach better? A Media Comparison Study for Case-based Teaching in Radiology, RadioGraphics 21, July 2001, 1025-1032.
• M.S. Frank and K. Dreyer, Beyond the Electronic Textbook Model: Software Techniques to make educational content Dynamic Journal of Digital Imaging 14, 2(June 2001), 108-112.
• C. Silen, et al, Advanced 3D visualization in student-centred medical education. Med Teach 30 5(June 2008), e115-24.
• Anders Ynnerman's TED Talk

Electronic Textbooks: Vision

• A. Korhonen, T. Naps, C. Boisvert, P. Crescenzi, V. Karavirta, L. Mannila, B. Miller, B. Morrison, S.H. Rodger, R. Ross, and C.A. Shaffer, Requirements and Design Strategies for Open Source Interactive Computer Science eBooks, in Proceedings of the ITiCSE Working Group Reports Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - Working Group Reports (ITiCSE-WGR'13), (.pdf), Canterbury, England, UK, July, 2013, 53-72.
• Rossling, et al. (ITiCSE WG 2006): "Merging Interactive Visualizations with Hypertextbooks and course management"
• C.A. Shaffer, V. Karavirta, A. Korhonen and T.L. Naps, OpenDSA: Beginning a Community Hypertextbook Project (.pdf), in Proceedings of 11th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, November 17-20, 2011, Koli National Park, Finland, 112--117.
• C.A. Shaffer, T.L. Naps, and E. Fouh, Truly Interactive Textbooks for Computer Science Education (.pdf), in Proceedings of the Sixth Program Visualization Workshop, June 30, 2011, Darmstadt, Germany, 97-103.
• J.H.-Y. Kim and H.-Y. Jung, "South Korean digital textbook project", Computers in the Schools, 27(3 & 4):247-265, 2010.

Electronic Texbooks: Infrastructure

• E. Fouh, V. Karavirta, D.A. Breakiron, S. Hamouda, S. Hall, T.L. Naps, and C.A. Shaffer, Design and architecture of an interactive eTextbook - The OpenDSA system (DOI, PDF), Science of Computer Programming 88, Special Issue on Software Development Concerns in the e-Learning Domain, 1(August 2014), 22-40.
• Connexions Project Homepage
• Quadbase question bank
• OpenStax College: A spin-off from Connexions that is supposed to provide high-quality eTextbooks.
• LeMill Homepage
• OpenDSA Project Website
• reStructuredText, which can be translated to HTML (and other formats) with Sphinx.
• MathJax for adding LaTeX formatted equations to HTML files. An alternative is mathTeX.
• The Basic Overview on How LTI Works

Khan Academy (and similar efforts)

• Khan Academy
• Clive Thompson, How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education, Wired, August 2011.
• Sal Khan's TED talk
• WEPS: World Education Portals, online mathematics courses including Khan Academy-style generated exercises. WEPS courses are more tightly integrated than KA's approach of disjoint videos and exercises.
• Education Portal: Khan Academy-style mini-lecture videos (though more polished), all for free. Aimed at students who want to self-study for college course credit through CLEP exam. They have developed content for many standard intro college courses. Each module has a few simple multiple choice questions for self-assessment.

Intelligent Tutors

• A.T. Corbett, K.R. Koedinger, and J.R. Anderson, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, in Handbook of Human-Computer Interaction, Second, Completely Revised Edition, M. Helander, T. K. Landauer, and P. Prabhu (Eds), Elsevier Science B.V., 1997, Chapter 37.
• J.R. Anderson, C.F. Boyle, and B.J. Reiser, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (.pdf), Science 228, April 1985, 456-462.
• J.R. Anderson, F.G. Conrad, and A.T. Corbett, Skill Acquisition and the LISP Tutor (.pdf), Cognitive Science 13, 1989, 467-505.
• A. Brunstein, S.A. Betts, and J.R. Anderson, (2009). Practice enables successful learning under minimal guidance (.pdf), Journal of Educational Psychology, 101(4), 790-802.
• D.D. Suthers, Representational and Advisory Guidance for Learning: Alternate Roles for AI (.pdf), Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, August 9-12, 1999, Honolulu Hawai’i, USA
• V.A.W.M.M. Aleven and K.R. Koedinger, An effective metacognitive strategy: learning by doing and explaining with a computer-based Cognitive Tutor (.pdf), Cognitive Science 26 (2002), 147-179.
• K. Forbes-Riley and D. Litman, Designing and evaluating a wizarded uncertainty-adaptive spoken dialogue tutoring system (.pdf), Computer Speech and Language 25 (2011) 105-126.
• A. Granic, S. Stankov, and J. Nakic, Designing Intelligent Tutors to Adapt Individual Interaction, (.pdf), LNCS 4397, 2007, 137-153.
• A. Marion and A. Oluwafunmilayo, DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTELLIGENT INSTRUCTIVE SYSTEM: (Scholastic Tutor (St*) (.pdf), Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education-TOJDE 12, 4(October), 2011, 34-44.
• L. Ford, A new intelligent tutoring system (.pdf), British Journal of Educational Technology 39(2), 2008 311-318.
• H.S. Nwana, An Approach to Developing Intelligent Tutors in Mathematics (.pdf), Computers in Education 20 1(1993), 27-43.

Online Sites for Learning to Program

• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python: Interactive Edition (Using Python 3.x)
• CS Circles: Another online Python eTextbook
• Google Python Tutor and a paper about it.
• eL-CID Web Programming
• Alice
• JhavePop
• ViLLE
• Jeliot

University eTextbook efforts

• Gradiance: This appears to offer the most sophisticated automated assessment process for the entries on this list. While the assessment is based on multiple choice questions, it is a "smart" treatment that lets students repeat missed questions while not rewarding guessing. There are small programming exercises.
• Kurt Gramoll's eCourses include case-based learning problems and simulations. See also: M. Huang and K. Gramoll, Online Interactive Multimedia for Engineering Thermodynamics, in 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education.

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs)

• Stephen P. Balfour, Assessing Writing in MOOCs: Automated Essay Scoring and Calibrated Peer Review Research & Practice in Assessment 8, Summer 2013, 40-48.
• C Piech, J Huang, Z Chen, C Do, A Ng, and D Koller, Tuned models of peer assessment in MOOCs, arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2579, 2013
• P.J. Guo, J. Kim, and R. Rubin, How Video Production Affects Student Engagement: An Empirical Study of MOOC Videos
• Stanford AI course
• edX
• OpenEdX Documentation
• CMU Open Learning Initiative
• Coursera
• Udacity
• Marian Petre and Mary Shaw, What's the Value Proposition of Distance Education? ACM Inroads 3, 3(Sept 2012), 26-28.

Commercial Sites

• IXL
• Grockit
• Apperson Prep

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