Personalization of Content: Bridging the gap between NSDL and its users through the course website

内容个性化：通过课程网站弥合 NSDL 与其用户之间的差距

• 批准号: 0532825
• 负责人: Manuel Perez-Quinones
• 金额: $ 44.99万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2009-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0532825&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Personalization; Content; Bridging; gap; between

This Targeted Research project aims to investigate and develop technology that allows a college-level course website to be the hub of activity for students and faculty who want access to the National STEM Education Digital Library (NSDL). The end product is a flexible and personalized information-seeking interface that customizes interactions for educators and learners using the NSDL. To provide this functionality seamlessly in the existing NSDL infrastructure and prevailing usage contexts, the project team is: 1. Conducting user studies to learn about student and faculty needs and activities with regard to course websites; 2. Evaluating the composition of context-sensitive services to determine the most common interaction sequences requested by users and to "factor out" the necessary NSDL services that should be composed; and 3. Developing an integrated personalization framework, exploiting the commonality of personalized interaction in various settings and reflecting this commonality in a factored software architecture. Intellectual Merit: By bringing NSDL content to course websites, the reach of the NSDL is extended into the collegiate educational system. By studying specific technological ideas in concrete educational contexts, the project helps develop guidelines on how personalization technologies can usefully impact educational usage. Broader Impacts: For educators, the personalized information-seeking interfaces developed by this project are of direct benefit in improving course delivery, increasing automation, and enhancing information access. For learners, the project offers them the capabilities to find the resources and services they value, and makes NSDL sites more responsive to their needs. The operation of this project itself entails broadening aspects, such as increasing the participation of minority students and encouraging a wider use of existing NSDL resources. The project team is committed to increase the flow of graduate Hispanic students into the field of Computer Science.

这个有针对性的研究项目旨在调查和开发技术，使大学课程网站成为希望访问国家STEM教育数字图书馆（NSDL）的学生和教职员工的活动中心。 最终产品是一种灵活且个性化的寻求信息界面，可自定义使用NSDL为教育者和学习者进行互动。 为了在现有的NSDL基础架构和普遍用法上下文中无缝提供此功能，项目团队是：1。进行用户研究以了解有关课程网站的学生和教职员工的需求和活动； 2。评估上下文敏感服务的组成，以确定用户要求的最常见的交互序列，并“分解”应构成的必要NSDL服务； 3。开发一个集成的个性化框架，利用在各种设置中个性化交互的共性，并在有因数的软件体系结构中反映了这种通用性。智力优点：通过将NSDL内容带到课程网站上，NSDL的范围扩展到了大学教育系统。 通过在具体的教育环境中研究特定的技术思想，该项目有助于制定有关个性化技术如何有效影响教育用法的准则。更广泛的影响：对于教育工作者而言，该项目开发的个性化信息寻求信息界面在改善课程交付，增加自动化和增强信息访问方面具有直接好处。 对于学习者而言，该项目为他们提供了找到他们重视的资源和服务的功能，并使NSDL站点对其需求更加响应。 该项目本身的运作需要扩大方面，例如增加少数族裔学生的参与并鼓励更广泛地使用现有的NSDL资源。 该项目团队致力于增加西班牙裔学生进入计算机科学领域的流程。