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.

该目标研究项目旨在调查和开发技术，使大学级课程网站成为想要访问国家 STEM 教育数字图书馆 (NSDL) 的学生和教师的活动中心。 最终产品是一个灵活且个性化的信息查找界面，可以使用 NSDL 为教育者和学习者定制交互。 为了在现有 NSDL 基础设施和主流使用环境中无缝提供此功能，项目团队： 1. 进行用户研究，了解学生和教师对课程网站的需求和活动； 2. 评估上下文相关服务的组成，以确定用户请求的最常见交互序列，并“分解”出应组成的必要 NSDL 服务； 3. 开发集成的个性化框架，利用各种设置中个性化交互的共性，并在分解的软件架构中反映这种共性。智力优势：通过将 NSDL 内容引入课程网站，NSDL 的影响范围扩展到大学教育系统。 通过研究具体教育环境中的具体技术理念，该项目有助于制定有关个性化技术如何有效影响教育使用的指南。更广泛的影响：对于教育工作者来说，该项目开发的个性化信息检索界面对于改善课程交付、提高自动化程度和增强信息访问具有直接好处。 对于学习者来说，该项目使他们能够找到他们重视的资源和服务，并使 NSDL 网站能够更好地满足他们的需求。 该项目的运作本身需要拓宽各个方面，例如增加少数民族学生的参与和鼓励更广泛地利用现有的 NSDL 资源。 该项目团队致力于增加西班牙裔研究生进入计算机科学领域的人数。