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College students exploit information technology to cheat on papers and assignments, but for the most part university faculty employ few technological techniques to detect cheating. This paper reports on a trial of software for the detection of...

A number of university campuses have undertaken the development of digital classrooms that enable presentation of digital media and digital lecture recording. While educators from across disciplines are interested in using the facilities these...

A number of university campuses have undertaken the development of digital classrooms that enable presentation of digital media and digital lecture recording. Deploying the infrastructure for a digital classroom is difficult at best even for a...

Incorporating a large amount of technology into a classroom is an important, but extremely difficult task. In this paper we describe the next generation of the UCSB digital classroom, called the Collaborative Technologies Lab (CTL). We feel it is...

In this paper we present a framework for plagiarism detection. Rather than exhaustively or randomly searching sentences in a student paper on the Internet for possible sources of borrowed ideas in student's text, we take a middle ground. With...

Usually one or more Teaching Assistants (TAs) are working onsite to help students during discussion sections, during office hours, or with lab assignments. However, in an environment where distance learning is used, an onsite TA might not be...

As more universities and research institutions develop digital classrooms, a common theme is arising: the need to manage complexity. As more technology is added in order to facilitate the presentation, transmission and recording of digital media,...

Feedback has always been a cornerstone of the learning process. Advances in mobile devices and wireless connectivity promise closer and better feedback between speakers and audiences. In this paper we discuss a system allowing both real-time and...

More effort has focused on integrating instructional technologies into classrooms than has focused on assessing the impact of these technologies on teaching and learning performance. To evaluate whether computer technology is beneficial to the...

Technology-facilitated collaboration is being widely deployed in modern classrooms. One way of promoting collaboration is to extend how students and instructors interact. This paper describes how Personal Response Systems (PRS), lecture slides and...

With the advent of laptop computers and network technology, many classrooms are now being equipped with Internet connections, either through wired connections or wireless infrastructure. Internet access provides students an additional source from...

We test our hypothesis that student in-class Internet actions reflect their attention levels. We predict that an engaging learning environment will result in students performing a higher number of on-task Internet activities. To test our hypothesis, ...

Increased access to the Internet has dramatically increased the sources from which students can deliberately or accidentally copy information. This article discusses our motivation to design, implement, and deploy an Internet based plagiarism...

** Invited as a Paper From ED-MEDIA 2006 ** Although engagement and learning appear linked, quantitatively measuring this relationship is challenging. New technologies offer a window into studying the interactions among classroom activity,...

Many universities are currently using a Course Management System (CMS) to organize course materials and conduct online learning activities. However, most commercial or open source CMS software does not include comprehensive access tracking and log...

Researchers are investigating the effect of technology-supported instructional methods on the learning process. One team investigating this effect is the Technology in Education (TIE) group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A problem...

Many universities are currently using Course Management Systems (CMSes) to conduct online learning, for example, by distributing course materials or submitting homework assignments. However, most CMSes do not include comprehensive activity tracking...

As part of the research carried out at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), the Paper Authentication and Integrity Research (PAIR) project was launched. We began by investigating how...