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Concept-Based Courseware Engineering for Large Scale Web-based Education
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet (WEBNET) 2000:1 , 2000

Peter Brusilovsky, Carnegie Technology Education, USA

This paper describes a concept-based course maintenance system that we have developed for Carnegie Technology Education. The system can check the consistency and quality of a course at any moment of its life and also assist course developers in some ...

Web-based Testing for Distance Education
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet (WEBNET) 1999:1 , 1999

Peter Brusilovsky & Philip Miller, Carnegie Technology Education, USA

The paper provides a technology-based review of Web-based testing technologies. It suggests an evaluation framework, which could be used by practitioners in Web-based education to understand and compare features available in various Web-based...

Web-based Interactive Visualization in an Information Retrieval Course
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2002:1 , 2002

Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Interactive visualization is a powerful educational tool. It has been used to enhance the teaching of various subjects from computer science to chemistry to engineering. Surprisingly enough, in computer science education, this powerful tool is used...

Assessing Student Programming Knowledge with Web-based Dynamic Parameterized Quizzes
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2002:1 , 2002

Peter Brusilovsky & Sharad Pathak, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Web-based knowledge assessment with on-line quizzes, is one of the oldest and most popular ways of using Web for educational purposes. Almost all the major Web courseware management system, support authoring and delivery of on-line quizzes, made of...

An Adaptive E-Learning Service for Accessing Interactive Examples
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2004:1 , 2004

Peter Brusilovsky, Michael Yudelson & Sergey Sosnovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

This paper discusses the need to provide adaptive navigational support for students accessing large numbers of interactive examples in Web-enhanced education. Here we introduce the system NavEx (Navigation to Examples), which is able to provide the...

Reuse of Lexicographic Examples in a Web-based Learners' Dictionary
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2004:1 , 2004

Judith Knapp, European Academy Bolzano, Italy; Johann Gamper, Free University of Bolzano, Italy; Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Content creation for a language learning system is a time-consuming, laborious, and expensive task. It is therefore desirable to reuse content as much as possible in different learning situation. An important part of content is the illustrative...

QuizGuide: Increasing the Educational Value of Individualized Self-Assessment Quizzes with Adaptive Navigation Support
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2004:1 , 2004

Peter Brusilovsky, Sergey Sosnovsky & Olena Shcherbinina, University of Pittsburgh, USA

The paper introduces QuizGuide, an adaptive system that we developed to help our students select the most relevant self-assessment quizzes. QuizGuide uses adaptive navigation support to show every student which topics are currently most important...

Adaptive, Engaging, and Explanatory Visualization in a C Programming Course
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2004:1 , 2004

Peter Brusilovsky & Michael Spring, University of Pittsburgh, USA

This paper discusses three ways to improve the educational value of program visualization: engaging visualization, explanatory visualization, and adaptive visualization. We present some tools that we have developed to explore adaptive, engaging, and ...

AHA! meets Interbook, and more...
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2003:1 , 2003

Paul De Bra & Tomi Santic, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

The AHA! system has been repeatedly extended over the past few years, focusing on adaptation flexibility. This has resulted in a powerful adaptation engine. AHA! provides tools for defining the conceptual structure and the adaptation of an...

Web-based Parameterized Questions as a Tool for Learning
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2003:1 , 2003

Sergey Sosnovsky, Olena Shcherbinina & Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Abstract: Web-based parameterized questions is one of the most promising kinds of Web knowledge assessment. In an assessment context a reasonably small number of parameterized questions can be used to produce cheating-proof assessments for large...

A Framework for Adaptive E-Learning Based on Distributed Re-usable Learning Activities
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2002:1 , 2002

Hemanta Nijhavan & Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

This paper argues that a way to the new generation of powerful E-learning systems starts on the crossroads of two emerging fields: courseware re-use and adaptive educational systems. This paper presents the KnowledgeTree, a framework for adaptive E...

Authoring and Delivery of Adaptive Electronic Textbooks made Easy
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2005:1 , October 2005

Ewald Ramp & Paul De Bra, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Abstract: The vast majority of textbooks (even when offered on-line) are still traditional book-like static documents with a fixed structure and content. Authoring a textbook in a "simple" environment like Microsoft Word is much easier than using...

Collaborative Paper Exchange
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2005:1 , October 2005

Peter Brusilovsky, Michael Yudelson & Sergey Sosnovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

In many graduate and undergraduate courses, instructors attempt to go "beyond the textbook" by assigning research papers for the students to read and briefly summarize, in order to bring the students a more complete and state-of-the-art...

Ontology-based Framework for User Model Interoperability in Distributed Learning Environments
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2005:1 , October 2005

Peter Brusilovsky, Sergey Sosnovsky & Michael Yudelson, University of Pittsburgh, USA

This paper presents an update of our work on developing a distributed architecture for adaptive E-Learning. We introduce ADAPT2 – an extension of KnowledgeTree architecture that was presented at one of the past E-Learn conferences. To accommodate a...

Personalized Guidance for Example Selection in an Explanatory Visualization System
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2006:1 , October 2006

Gayathri Krishnamoorthy & Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

A number of teams are pursuing research in the field of adaptive visualization. This paper provides a solution for offering students personalized guidance, through the Variable Scope Explanatory Visualization system, VARScope. The paper explains how ...

QuizVIBE: Accessing Educational Objects with Adaptive Relevance-Based Visualization
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2006:1 , October 2006

Jae-wook Ahn, Peter Brusilovsky & Sergey Sosnovsky, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA

A number of research teams are working to structure personalized access to the online repositories of educational resources. The goal of personalized access is to help students locate resources that match their individual goals, interests, and...

AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2006:1 , October 2006

Rosta Farzan & Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA

The World Wide Web is currently the single most popular hypertext system; however, a number of features that were common for advanced "standalone" hypertext systems are not supported by the web. These features are important for such demanding...

Time and Structure Based Navigation in Web Lectures: Bridging a Dual Media Gap
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN) 2006:1 , October 2006

Robert Mertens, Virtual Teaching Support Center (VirtUOS), University of Osnabrück, Germany; Peter Brusilovsky, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Sergey Ishchenko, Virtual Teaching Support Center (VirtUOS), University of Osnabrück, Germany; Oliver Vornberger, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany

Typical web lectures consist of two different kinds of media linked together, an audio- or video-recording and the corresponding slides or desktop recording. Both media are synchronized so that the slide or image shown corresponds to the position...

Bridging the Gap Between Time- and Structure-Based Navigation in Web Lectures
International Journal on E-Learning (IJEL) 8:1 , January 2009

Robert Mertens, Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany; Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Oliver Vornberger & Sergey Ishchenko, University of Osnabrück, Germany

Typical web lectures consist of two different kinds of media linked together: an audio- or video-recording and the corresponding slides or desktop recording. Both media are synchronized so that the slide or image shown corresponds to the position...

Resolving the Problem of Intelligent Learning Content in Learning Management Systems
International Journal on E-Learning (IJEL) 7:3 , July 2008

Marta Rey-López, University of Vigo, Spain; Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Maram Meccawy, University of Nottingham, UK; Rebeca Díaz-Redondo & Ana Fernández-Vilas, University of Vigo, Spain; Helen Ashman, University of South Australia, Australia

Current e-learning standardization initiatives have put much effort into easing interoperability between systems and the reusability of contents. For this to be possible, one of the most relevant areas is the definition of a run-time environment,...

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