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

这个有针对性的研究项目旨在调查和开发技术，使大学水平的课程网站成为希望访问国家STEM教育数字图书馆（NSDL）的学生和教师的活动中心。 最终产品是一个灵活和个性化的信息搜索界面，为使用NSDL的教育者和学习者定制交互。 为了在现有的NSDL基础设施和流行的使用环境中无缝地提供此功能，项目团队是：1。 进行用户研究，了解学生和教师的需求和活动方面的课程网站; 2。 评估上下文敏感服务的组成，以确定用户请求的最常见的交互序列，并“分解”出应该组成的必要NSDL服务;以及3. 开发一个集成的个性化框架，在各种设置中利用个性化交互的共性，并在因子化软件架构中反映这种共性。智力优势：通过将NSDL内容带到课程网站，NSDL的范围扩展到大学教育系统。 通过研究具体教育背景下的具体技术思想，该项目有助于制定个性化技术如何有效影响教育使用的指导方针。更广泛的影响：对于教育工作者来说，本项目开发的个性化信息搜索界面在改善课程交付、提高自动化程度和增强信息访问方面具有直接益处。 对于学习者来说，该项目为他们提供了找到他们所重视的资源和服务的能力，并使NSDL网站更能满足他们的需求。 这一项目的运作本身需要扩大各个方面，例如增加少数民族学生的参与，鼓励更广泛地利用国家发展学院现有的资源。 该项目团队致力于增加研究生西班牙裔学生进入计算机科学领域的流量。

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.