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The following
documents pertaining to development of the CIMEL project are available
to our review panel and other interested parties:
Project
planning and papers:
- The abstract
and original proposal, submitted to the National
Science Foundation June 1, 2000 and granted October 1, 2000 (EIA-0087977),
both PDF files (require Adobe
Acrobat Reader).
- The development
plan for year 0 and year 1, updated from the original proposal,
April 20, 2001.
- A poster
abstract, presented at The
6th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science
Education, 25-27 June 2001, Canterbury, UK.
Multimedia
analysis and design:
- Answers
to questions for preliminary requirements
analysis, by Glenn D. Blank. Includes audience analysis for students
in CS1 and OOSE courses, goal and content analysis for OOSE content
in these courses, needs assessment, and early discussion of resources
and timeline.
- A script
for a lesson on Abstract Data Types (ADTs) for the OOSE course (Word
document), by Harriet Jaffe and Glenn D. Blank.
- A script
for a "show me" demonstrating how to use the hot topics
to study emerging contents in Abstract Data Types, occurring at the
end of the ADT lesson scripted above (Word document), by Soma Roy and
Glenn D. Blank.
- Programming
guidelines, by Harriet Jaffe. User interface standards for implementing
CIMEL multimedia. These are preliminary and will evolve: please email
suggestions to Harriet.
- Programming
guidelines, by Soma Roy.
- Script Writing
guidelines, by Soma Roy. Download this file together with a sample script on Design Pattern to see the script guideline together with examples from an actual script.
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Colloborative
networking interface analysis and design:
- Network
Interface Specification, by Drew Kessler. Outlines a collaborative
user interface in which personae seamlessly connect students to human
instructors and librarians via networking technologies.
Hot topics
data mining research plan:
- Detecting
Emerging Concepts in Textual Data Mining, by William M. Pottenger
and David R. Gevry. Summarizes our research to date in the automatic
identification of emerging trends in textual data and discusses the
integration of trend detection in the development of constructive, inquiry-based
multimedia courseware.
Evaluation
surveys and data:
- Results
of survey evaluating CIMEL goals, analysis and prototype, given
2/28/2001-3/12/2001.
- Report
on quantitative section of CIMEL survey, by Morgan Jennings and
Debra Dirksen.
- Minutes
of Review Panel meeting, discussing results of survey, March 15,
2001, Lehigh University.
- Sound files recording Review Panel (RealAudio plug-in required, high-speed
connection recommended): side
a and side
b.
- Post-Test
for Introduction to Computing (CS1), Fall 2000, with data.
- Post-Test
for Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE), Fall 2000, with
data.
- The fall
2000 project evaluation form was designed
to get feedback from students, in CS1 and OOSE courses, who had used
the multimedia for The
Universal Machine. This survey is no longer actively collecting
data. Spreadsheet data is available
(Excel document: "Class 1" tab is CS1 data, "Class 2"
tab is OOSE data, both on the left.
- The VARK
learning styles survey, also given in fall 2000, was designed to
learn about student learning styles. This survey is no longer actively
collecting data. Spreadsheet
data is available (Excel document: "Class 1" tab is CS1
data, "Class 2" tab is OOSE data, both on the right.). It
is likely that we will use a different, appropriately validated survey
for this purpose in the future.
- Analysis of fall 2000 VARK learning
styles survey and project evaluation form, by evaluators Morgan
Jennings and Debra Dirksen.
Courses
planned for multimedia development:
- Object-Oriented
Software Engineering (OOSE): the syllabus
includes texts, assignments and lecture notes for Fall 2000; summarized
in our top-level
content analysis. OOSE, a graduate level course, is the first course
for which we are developing multimedia in the CIMEL framework. The official
course description is: "Design and construction of modular, reusable,
extensible and portable software using statically typed object-oriented
programming languages (Eiffel, C++, Java). Abstract data types; genericity;
multiple inheritance; use and design of software libraries; persistence
and object-oriented databases; impact of OOP on the software life cycle.
Our prototype covers one lesson of this
course, abstract data types. Prof Glenn Blank is the instructor.
- Introduction
to Computing (CS1): the syllabus
includes text and assignments for Fall 2000; summarized in our top-level
content analysis. CS1 is an introductory course, for majors and
non-majors. As of fall 2001, this course will be split into two sections
at Lehigh University, one for majors (or other students planning to
continue in a Computer Science sequence) and another for non-majors,
with different multimedia laboratory sections and requirements. The
majors course will cover C++ programming in more detail, while the non-majors
course will focus more on web site development and Javascript. Prof
Glenn Blank is the instructor.
- Programming
Languages (PL) syllabus, text and assignments for Spring 2001. PL
is an intermediate level course, required of all Computer Science and
Computer Engineering majors at Lehigh University (comparable courses
are required in most other CS programs as well). Prof Drew Kessler is
the instructor; Profs. Blank and Pottenger have each also taught this
course multiple times.
Corporate
Sponsors (letters of support):
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- Adam
Lansing, Engineering Operations Leader, Lutron Electronics Company
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Allan Frank, President and CTO, answerthink
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