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Integrating Technology and Problem-based Learning: A Mixed Methods Study of Two Teacher Professional Development Designs (with Andrew Walker, M. Brooke Robertshaw, Jeffrey Osen, Heather Leary, Lei Ye, and Linda Sellers), Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning (2011)

This article describes two consecutive enactments of technology-oriented teacher professional development designs, aimed at helping...

 

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Modeling Teacher Ratings of Online Resources: A Human-Machine Approach to Quality (with Heather Leary, Andrew Walker, Anne Diekema, Philipp Wetzler, Tamara Sumner, and James Martin), American Educational Reserach Association (2011)

In education, the scalable deployment of media-rich online resources supports peer production in ways that...

 

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Where in the World? Demographic Patterns in Access Data (with Beijie Xu, Sherry Hsi, and Christine Garrard), ITLS Faculty Publications (2010)

Standard webmetrics tools record the IP address of users’ computers, thereby providing fodder for analyses...

 

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Peer Production of Online Learning Resources: A Social Network Analysis (with Beijie Xu), ITLS Faculty Publications (2010)

This work describes methods for collecting user activity data in a peer production educational system,...

 

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Integrating Technology and Problem-Based Learning: A Comparison of Two Teacher Professional Development Approaches (with Andrew Walker, M. Brooke Robertshaw, Jeffrey Olsen, and Heather Leary), The Instructional Architect Research Group (2010)
 

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Problem-Based Design: A Technology-Oriented Teacher Professional Development Model. (with Andrew Walker and Brooke Robertshaw), The Instructional Architect Research Group (2010)
 

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Educational Data Mining Approaches for Digital Libraries (with Sherry Hsi, Beijie Xu, and Rob Rothfarb), ITLS Faculty Publications (2009)

This collaborative research project between the Exploratorium and Utah State's Department of Instructional Technology and...

 

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Educational Digital Libraries on the Verge: Introduction to the special issue (with Lillian Cassell and Sarah Hosted), International Journal of Digital Libraries (2008)

Emerging distributed socio-technical infrastructures, as embodied by digital libraries, are transforming (and even disrupting) traditional...

 

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A Study of Teachers' Use of Online Learning Resources to Design Classroom Activities (with Andrew E. Walker, S. Giersch, X. Mao, B. Palmer, D. Johnson, Heather M. Leary, and B. Robertshaw), New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (2007)

While much progress has been made on the technical design and development of digital libraries,...

 

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Teaching, Designing, and Sharing: A Context for Learning Objects (with Jim Dorward, Deonne Dawson, Ye Liu, Xin Mao, Bart Palmer, Sam Halioris, and Jaeyang Park), Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects (2005)

This article describes a professional development model and a set of tools intended to increase...

 

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Collaborative Information Filtering: A Review and an Educational Application (with Andrew E. Walker, Kimberly Lawless, and David Wiley), International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Education (2004)

This paper reviews the literature surrounding an information filtering technique, collaborative information filtering, which supports...

 

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Discovery and Use of Online Learning Resources: Case Study Findings (with James Dorward and Laurie Miller Nelson), Journal of Educational Technology & Society (2004)

Much recent research and funding have focused on building Internet-based repositories that contain collections of...

 

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What Do You Recommend? Implementation and Analyses of Collaborative Information Filtering of Web Resources for Education (with Andrew E. Walker and Kimberly Lawless), Instructional Science (2003)

This article examines results from one pilotstudy and two empirical studies of acollaborative filtering (CF)...

 

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Supporting ‘Word-of-Mouth’ Social Networks through Collaborative Information Filtering (with Andrew Walker), Journal of Interactive Learning Research (2003)

Altered Vista is an instructional system that supports a form of ‘contextual’ collaborative learning. Its...

 

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A Concept-First Approach for an Introductory Computer Science Course (with Linda P. DuHadway, Stephen W. Clyde, and Donald H. Cooley), Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2002)

Several weaknesses have been identified to the programming-first approach often used in introductory computer science...

 

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A Non-Authoritative Educational Metadata Ontology for Filtering and Recommending Learning Objects (with David A. Wiley), Interactive Learning Environments (2001)

Digital libraries populated with learning objects are becoming popular tools in the creation of instructional...

 

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New Zealand Higher Education in the Age of the Global Virtual University (with Cathy Gunn), Educational Technology Research and Development (2001)

Universities around the world are frequently criticized for being tradition bound and slow to respond...

 

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Cognitive Media and Hypermedia Learning Environment Design: A GOMS Model Analysis (with Terry Shikano and Ashwin Ram), International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Education (1998)

In our research, we have been developing a design framework for educational multimedia, based on...

 

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Harnessing user communities for website location and evaluation (with Tim Beal), EALRGA Newsletter (1997)

The AsiaWeb Project is looking at the problem of accessing quality and relevant information on...

 

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Predicting Document Access in Large Multimedia Repositories (with James E. Pitkow), ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (1996)

Network-accessible multimedia databases, repositories, and libraries are proliferating at a rapid rate. A crucial problem...

 

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Using the Web as a survey tool: Results from the second WWW user survey (with James Pitkow), Computer Networks (1995)

This paper presents the initial results from the second World-Wide Web User Survey, which was...

 

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Cognitive Media Types for Multimedia Information Access (with Ashwin Ram, George Li, Terry Shikano, and John Stasko), Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (1995)

Multimedia repositories, libraries, and databases o er the potential for providing stu- dents with access to...

 

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Modelling individual differences in students' learning strategies (with Peter Pirolli), Journal of the Learning Sciences (1995)

Learners employ a wide variety of strategies when faced with learning and problem solving in...

 

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Learning strategies and transfer in the domain of programming (with Peter Pirolli), Cognition and Instruction (1994)
 

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Results from the First World-Wide Web Survey (with James Pitkow), Journal of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems (1994)

The explosion of World-Wide Web (WWW) across the Internet is staggering, both in terms of...

 

Book Chapters

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Collaboratively Filtering Learning Objects (with Andrew E. Walker and David A. Wiley), Designing Instruction with Learning Objects (2001)

This chapter describes and discusses the application of collaborative filtering techniques to the design of...

 

Conference Papers

A Study of How Online Learning Resource Are Used (with S. Giersch, Andrew E. Walker, S. Halioris, M. Xin, and B. Palmer), Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (2007)
 

Reports

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Developing a Review Rubric for Learning Resources in Digital Libraries (with Heather Leary, Sarah Giersch, and Andrew Walker), ITLS Faculty Publications (2009)

This paper describes the development of a review rubric for learning resources in the context...

 

Presentations

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Hitting the trifecta: A professional development model for creating, using and disseminating open education resources. (with Sarah Giersch, Andrew Walker, and Rena Janke), 2006 Open Education Conference, Logan, UT (2006)

This session presents a teacher professional development model developed by the Digital Libraries go to...

 

Other

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Connecting People with Online Resources: The Instructional Architect (PBL) (with Andrew Walker, Heather Leary, Linda Sellers, Lei Ye, and M. Brooke Robertshaw), Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences - OCW (2011)

The National Science Foundation (nsf.gov) has funded a large initiative to catalog collections of high-quality...

 

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Connecting People with Online Resources: The Instructional Architect (Technology) (with Andrew Walker, Heather Leary, Linda Sellers, Lei Ye, and M. Brooke Robertshaw), Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences - OCW (2011)

The National Science Foundation (nsf.gov) has funded a large initiative to catalog collections of high-quality...

 

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Instructional Architect Teacher Professional Development Handouts (with Andrew Walker, M. Brooke Robertshaw, Linda Sellers, and Heather M. Leary), ITLS Research (2009)

Three handouts for the teacher professional development workshops on the Instructional Architect (IA). Starting spring...

 

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IA Quality Guide (with Sarah Giersch and Heather Leary), ITLS Research (2009)

This is a review rubric geared for the projects in the Instructional Architect. It is...

 

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Instructional Architect (with Heather M. Leary), Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences (2009)

The National Science Foundation (nsf.gov) has funded a large initiative to catalog collections of high-quality...

 

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OER CPOR - Connecting People with Online Resources, Spring 2007, Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences (2007)

The National Science Foundation (nsf.gov) has funded a large initiative to catalog collections of high-quality...

 

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INST5240 - Producing Distance Education Resources, Spring 2005, Instructional Technology & Learning Sciences (2005)

This course focuses on the production of resources (broadly interpreted) for use in online education...