Progressor: Personalized visual access to programming problems

Author

Bakalov, Fedor ; Hsiao, I-Han ; Brusilovsky, Peter ; König-Ries, Birgitta

Author_Institution

Inst. for Comput. Sci., Univ. of Jena, Jena, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

18-22 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

205

Lastpage

208

Abstract

This paper presents Progressor, a visualization of open student models intended to increase the student´s motivation to progress on educational content. The system visualizes not only the user´s own model, but also the peers´ models. It allows sorting the peers´ models using a number of criteria, including the overall progress and the progress on a specific topic. Also, in this paper we present results of a classroom study confirming our hypothesis that by showing a student the peers´ models and ranking them by progress it is possible to increase the student´s motivation to compete and progress in e-learning systems.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; data visualisation; user interfaces; Progressor model; e-learning system; educational content progress; open student model; peer model; programming problem; student motivation; visualization; Adaptation models; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Object oriented modeling; Peer to peer computing; Visualization; e-learning; open social student model; open user model; self-assessment; visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2011 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

ISSN

1943-6092

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1246-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLHCC.2011.6070400

Filename

6070400