CSE 590D

Computer-Based Learning Environments (Autumn 2001)

Welcome to the 590D Autumn 2001 home page!

Meetings most Wednesdays from 3:30-4:20 in EE1 045 (Electrical Engineering Building, basement). .

CSE Faculty Coordinator: Steve Tanimoto

GENERAL TOPIC: The design of computer-based learning environments.

FOCUS THIS QUARTER:

This is an interdisciplinary seminar, typically involving participants from CSE, Cognitive Psychology, the College of Education's Curriculum and Instruction program, and EE. Our activities include reading and discussing recent papers, critiquing software systems, designing components of computer-based learning environments, and occasionally, visiting classrooms to observe K-12 or undergraduate students interacting with computers.

Schedule

Miscellaneous Resources

Here some papers and web pages that describe various aspects of the project. The project as a whole involves elements of software design and integration, inference of student understanding and misunderstanding, design of instructional materials, and evaluation.

The notion of a "facet" of understanding is key to the assessment methodology used in the project. Jim Minstrell has provided online definitions for facet and facet cluster.

Much of the project activity takes place during an actual course, a freshman seminar on image processing and related subject matter. (Paper written for the IEEE Workshop on Combined Research-Curriculum Development in Computer Vision.)

An example of topical material that sometimes falls within the purview of the seminar is the mathematical concept of function. (Paper presented at ED-MEDIA 2001.)