CS6604: Reinventing CS Education through the eTextbook
Calendar and Coursenotes: Spring 2012

This page will show what we cover each day, and indicate assigned readings, due dates, etc.

Week 1: Introduction
- Wednesday, January 18: Introduction
  Today's Class notes
Week 2: eTextbook Ecosystem; Khan Academy
- Monday, January 23: eTextbook Ecosystem; Khan Academy (from user's view)
  Today's Class notes
  HOMEWORK: Look at the Khan Academy website. Be sure to look at the Khan Academy "About" page and watch the video there on Khan Academy Exercise Software.
- Wednesday, January 25: Khan Academy internals (Eric Fouh); OpenDSA project intro
  Eric Fouh's Presentation
  Source code for my example KA question
  Exercises that we have written for OpenDSA
  Reading Assignment: OpenDSA PVW11 and OpenDSA Koli 2011
Week 3
- Monday, January 30: Survey on eTextbooks; Recurring pedagogical issues
  Today's notes
- Wednesday, February 1: Interesting websites
  Todsay's notes
  READING ASSIGNMENT: Papers to read PRIOR to Monday, 2/6:
  Hundhausen, et al Metastudy paper
  Naps, et al. Engagement paper
Week 4: Algorithm Visualizations
- Monday, February 6: AV: Background, pedagogical effectiveness
  Today's Coursenotes
  ASSIGNMENT: Due date to receive approval on your class presentation topic and date (Assignment 1)
- Wednesday, February 8: Quicksort AVs
  Quicksort AV link list
  ASSIGNMENT: Due date to receive approval on your class project (Assignment 2)
Week 5
- Monday, February 13: Sally Hamouda: CUELC experiences
  READING ASSIGNMENT: Look at these sites prior to class:
  RELOAD
  Moodle
  SCORM
  Instructional designers
  Presentation
  ASSIGNMENT: Due date to receive approval on your class paper (Assignment 3)
- Wednesday, February 15: Ann Paul: Web-CAT and systems for automated grading of programs
  READING ASSIGNMENT: Look at the following prior to class:
  Web-CAT
  Edwards 2004
  Edwards 2003
  Notes for today
Week 6
- Monday, February 20: Gayathri Subramanian: Automated grading of programs; online teaching of programming
  READING ASSIGNMENT: Look at the following prior to class:
  K.M. Ala-Mutka, A Survey of Automated Assessment Approaches for Programming Assignments
  P. Ihantola, V. Karavirta, Review of Recent Systems for Automatic Assessment of Programming Assignments
  Presentation
- Wednesday, February 22: Maoyuan Sun: Commercial eBook systems (Kindle, Apple, etc.)
  READING ASSIGNMENT: Look at the following prior to class:
  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.
  Apple iBooks Author Tour
  Presentation
Week 7
- Monday, February 27: Pilu Crescenzi on teaching NP-Completeness
  Lecture notes and ALVIE visualization: Unpack this to see both the slides, and also to be able to run the ALVIE visualization. To run, invoke the .jar file in Java, and then click on the fourth icon (the one that looks like a little computer screen). This should give you a menu to let you pick the visualization to view -- he showed Vertext Cover. You can also click on the 6th icon (PDF viewer) to see some notes on the algorithm being visualized.
- Wednesday, February 29: CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO SIGCSE
Week 8
- Monday, March 12: Nidhi Parikh: Automated question assessment and question banks
  READING ASSIGNMENT: Look at the following prior to class:
  Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Effective Practice with e-Assessment, 2007.
  Presentation Slides
- Wednesday, March 14: Brian Dillon: No Significant Difference
  READING ASSIGNMENT: Papers to read PRIOR to class
  Brian's suggested reading strategy
  If There Is No Significant Difference, Why Should We Care?, Sharmila Basu Conger
  The Myth about No Significant Difference, D.G. Oblinger and B.L. Hawkins
  Part of No Significant Difference by Russell
  Presentation
Week 9
- Monday, March 19: Doaa Altarawy: Learning styles
  ASSIGNMENT: Answer the Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire prior to class on Monday.
  Presentation Slides
- Wednesday, March 21: Mohammed Seyam: Learning styles
  Presentation Slides
Week 10
- Monday, March 26: Congwu Tao: Intelligent Tutors
  Presentation
- Wednesday, March 28: Dr. Shaffer: Cognitive Theory and the Design of Multimedia Instruction Part 1
  Presentation
Week 11
- Monday, April 2: Mai El Shehaly: The role of Visualization in Medical Education
  ASSIGNMENT: Watch Anders Ynnerman's TED Talk
  Presentation
- Wednesday, April 4: Dr. Shaffer: Cognitive Theory and the Design of Multimedia Instruction Part 2
  Presentation
Week 12
- Monday, April 9: Suruchi Deodhar: Internationalization of e-textbook materials
  Presentation
- Wednesday, April 11: Alex Cioaca: Blended Learning: labs, lecture, online courses
  Presentation
Week 13
- Monday, April 16: Neelima Krishnan: eTextbooks for Children
  Presentation
- Wednesday, April 18: Abdallah Hassan and Dr. Shaffer: Document markup languages
  Abdallah's presentation
  Dr. Shaffer's presentation
Week 14
- Monday, April 23: John Christy, WeTextbook Reader: An eTextbook add-on for Microsoft OneNote
  Presentation
- Wednesday, April 25: Jacob Moore: Visualizing the organization of modules/course materials
  C. Williams and J. Moore, Advancing Personalized Learning via an Adaptive Concept Map, to be presented at the 2012 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX.
  J.D. Novak and A.J. Canas, The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them, Technical Report IHMC CmapTools 2006-01 Rev 01-2008, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, 2008.
  Persentation
Week 15
- Monday, April 30: Dr. Shaffer: More educational projects and papers
  Presentation
- Wednesday, May 2: Dr. Shaffer: Concluding discussion
- Thursday, May 3: Paper and Project assignments due

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CS6604: Reinventing CS Education through the eTextbook Calendar and Coursenotes: Spring 2012

CS6604: Reinventing CS Education through the eTextbook
Calendar and Coursenotes: Spring 2012