Collaborative Example Authoring System: The Value of Re-annotation based on Community Feedback

I Han Hsiao; Peter Brusilovsky

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 7122–7131

Learning from examples is a common and powerful approach when mastering the art of programming. In our classroom studies of WebEx and NavEx, students highly praised the systems. However, the broader dissemination of this approach was not very...

Problem Solving Examples as First Class Objects in Educational Digital Libraries: Three Obstacles to Overcome

Peter Brusilovsky; Michael Yudelson; I-Han Hsiao

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 18, No. 3 (July 2009) pp. 267–288

The paper analyzes three major problems encountered by our team as we endeavored to turn problem solving examples in the domain of programming into highly reusable educational activities, which could be included as first class objects in various...

Topics: Educational Technology, Artificial Intelligence, eLearning, Learning Objects, Navigation, Instructional Materials, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Sciences

Web-based Parameterized Questions for Object-Oriented Programming

I-Han Hsiao; Peter Brusilovsky; Sergey Sosnovsky

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 3728–3735

Web-based questions for assessment and self-assessment of students’ knowledge are important components of modern E-Learning. Parameterized questions allow to enhance the value of Web-based questions while also decreasing the authoring costs. This...