CAREER: Personalized Access to Open Corpus Educational Resources through Adaptive Navigation Support and Adaptive Visualization

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The volume of educational resources available to students is rapidly increasing. In awide variety of subject domains, educational resources are now available on the Weband in educational Digital Libraries. The abundance of resources has created the needto provide personalized access to educational resources, i.e., to help students find,organize, and use resources that match their individual goals, interests, and currentknowledge. This project answers that need by developing and exploring a broad rangeof innovative techniques for personalized access to open corpus educational resources.Among these techniques are adaptive navigation support and adaptive visualizationtechniques, which offer a higher level of interactivity and expressive power and take intoaccount not only the users' interests, but also their current knowledge and goals. Tointegrate the results of this research into education, we are developing a system thatuses the most promising techniques to provide students in undergraduate programmingcourses at the University of Pittsburgh with personalized access to a large volume ofdiverse open corpus resources. This system serves as a major evaluation platform forthe techniques being developed.By focusing on personalized access to educational resources, the project providesshort-term and long-term broader impacts. The system developed in the course of thisproject maximizes educational opportunities for every student in several large,programming-related undergraduate courses at the University of Pittsburgh. Widelydisseminated through publications and the project's web site, our personalizedinformation access techniques help thousands of students to harness the educationalpower of the Web and Digital Libraries.http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~taler/pacer.html