Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2011 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Pittsburgh, PA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1246-3
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2011.6070400
