Some of our recent projects and publications:

Wired for Learning
Wired for Learning is a Lotus Notes/Domino and Java™-based framework for Internet applications that support K-12 education. Components of the framework include communication tools for students, parents, teachers, and mentors, as well as professional development tools for educators' building and sharing of knowledge and resources. Here are some related papers and sites.

• IBM's Wired for Learning Web site

 
• Lei Kuang and Dick Lam, "Domino, Java, and the Student Success team," presented at the 1999 Notes and Web Best Practices Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 1999

 
• Lei Kuang, Keith Grueneberg, and Dick Lam, "Education on the Net: Constructing Collaborative Learning Communities," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computers in Education, Beijing, China, October 1998, pp. 543-545

• Lei Kuang, "Wired for Learning -- Issues in Constructing Collaborative Communities for K12 Education," presented at the 1998 Notes Best Practices Conference, Cambridge, MA, May 1998

 
• Keith Grueneberg, Lei Kuang, and Dick Lam, "Managing Shared Documents Among Domino Sites," presented at the 2001 Notes and Web Best Practices Conference, Toronto, Canada, May 2001

 
• Other projects built using the Wired for Learning framework:
• Learning Village: The flagship services offering of the IBM at School brand, enabling e-business in education
• Digital Portfolio Project: An application suite for matching employer needs to the skills of graduating artists from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts
• Smithsonian Digital Library and Lesson Planner: A link from the Wired for Learning lesson planning suite to the IBM Digital Library. The library includes online searching and access to millions of items from the Smithsonian Institution's collections

Tutoring Systems

• Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Algebra - AlgeBrain and Algebra Jam
• Deploying Intelligent Tutors on the Web: An Architecture and an Example

by Sherman R. Alpert, M. Kevin Singley, and Peter Fairweather
(International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 10(2), pp. 183-197, 1999)
 
• Team Tutoring Systems: Reifying Roles in Problem Solving

by M. Kevin Singley, Peter Fairweather, and Steven Swerling
(Proceedings of Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 2000)
 
• Alpert, Singley, & Fairweather (2000). A Web-Based Intelligent Tutor for Elementary Algebra Equation

Solving, Proceedings of “Learning Algebra with the Computer, A Transdisciplinary Workshop,”
ITS 2000: Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
 
• Alpert, Singley, & Fairweather (2000). Porting a Standalone Intelligent Tutoring System to the Web,

Proceedings of  the “Workshop on Adaptive and Intelligent Web-Based Education Systems,” ITS
2000: Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
 
• Reading Tutor - The Watch-Me!-Read Project
• This is a tutor for emerging readers that incoporates scaffolded support, particularly in the form of speech output (the system "reads" to the student), and speech recognition to determine whether a student has read words/phrases correctly. It has also been adapted for adult literacy programs.
  
  
• A paper titled Overcoming Technical Barriers to a Speech-enabled Children's Reading Tutor

by Peter Fairweather, Don Nix, Dan Oblinger, Bill Adams, and Carla Laffra
 
• Intelligent Tutoring System for Programming
• We've published several papers and a book chapter about MoleHill, an ITS for

Smalltalk programming. Here's a recent one (others listed on the "Other Work" page):
Multiple Instructional Agents in an Intelligent Tutoring System
by Sherman R. Alpert, Mark K. Singley, and John M. Carroll
(Proceedings of  Workshop on Animated and Personified Pedagogical Agents at the International Conference on AI in Education, 1999)
 
• Applications Tutors

We are working on ways of tracking and interpreting application usage so that training lessons, certification exams, and on-the-job performance support can be more context-aware and individualized.
• A memo on Human-Computer Interaction Recognition by Robert Farrell
• A paper titled Capturing Interaction Histories on the Web by Robert Farrell
• A paper titled A Task-based Architecture for Application-Aware Adjuncts

by Robert Farrell, Peter Fairweather, and Eric Breimer
(Proceedings of the Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2000)

Concept Maps
We've built a Web-based concept mapping tool that incorporates multimedia for knowledge representation as well as multiple levels of abstraction.
 

• Alpert, S.R. & Grueneberg, K. (2000). Concept Mapping with Multimedia on the Web. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 9(4), 313-330

 
• Alpert, S.R. & Grueneberg, K. (2001). Multimedia in Concept Maps: A Design Rationale and Web-Based Application. In Proceedings of Ed-Media 2001: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications




Online Patient Education
This project is part of a research grant to Memorial Sloan-Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center from IBM Community Relations. The goal of the project is to provide cancer patients with comprehensive, relevant, and readable information via the Web. The first phase involved re-creating existing Sloan-Kettering Patient Education CDs on the Web using Notes/Domino.
During the second phase of our project, we will implement an even more comprehensive information portal for cancer patients.  For it, we intend to utilize some of the latest knowledge management research being done at IBM.  One of those technologies is IBM's Clever search mechanism (http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/k53/clever.html).
Our long-term goal for this phase is to create a Web-based courseware environment and courseware tools within Notes/Domino that will be reusable for other education projects.
 

• Here's a link to the MSK patient and family education Web site

 
• Poster (~2.5MB) presented by MSK's Patient Education Program and IBMers, The American Association for Cancer Education (AACE) Annual Meeting, November, 2000 .

 
• Here's a paper on the project: Callery, Matthew, Tetzlaff, Linda, Rokadia, Anjum, On-Line Education for Cancer Patients: Using Multimedia and Notes/Domino. IBM Notes/Web Best Practices Conference, May, 2000

 
• And a conference poster presentation: Callery, Matthew & Tetzlaff, Linda, Poster/Demo Session, IBM International Conference on Knowledge Management, June, 2000




 
Asynchronous Learning Networks/Cognitive Apprenticeship
 
• A description of a project using cognitive apprenticeship as an instructional design approach for Asynchronous Learning Environments, by Kathleen Snyder

 
• Snyder, K. (2000).  Asynchronous Learning Networks and Cognitive Apprenticeship. A Potential Model for Teaching Problem-Solving Skills in Corporate Environments. Dissertation Abstracts (submitted for publication)

 
• Kathleen Snyder, Robert Farrell, and Norma Baker (2000). Online Mentoring: A Case Study Involving Cognitive Apprenticeship and a Technology-Enabled Learning Environment, In Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2000, World Conference On Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia And Telecommunications

 
• Kathleen Snyder, Robert Farrell, and Norma Baker (2001), eMentoring - A Design and Implementation Study. In Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2001, World Conference On Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia And Telecommunications

 


A book by our fearless leader

• Andrew S. Gibbons & Peter G. Fairweather, Computer-Based Instruction: Design and Development, Educational Technology Publications, 1998




TryScience
TryScience, another grant project of IBM's (http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives/grant/arts/tryscience.html), offers a new way for people to gain access to and discover the science presented by museums around the world through interactive exhibits, multimedia adventures, and live camera "field trips."  TryScience also provides hands-on science projects that children, parents, and teachers can do at home or in school.
Our group's involvement with TryScience is to apply some of the same technologies we have developed for Memorial Sloan-Kettering.  Our goal is to provide technology to support users in navigating the Web sites of their member museums.



eVillage (Community Networking)

 
• An Overview of the Project

 
• A list of applications piloted using the eVillage framework

 
• A paper about eVillage:

Tetzlaff, L.  (1998).  Synergistic development of Community Network applications, position paper presented at: Designing Across Borders:  The Community Design of Community Networks, PDC 98 and CSCW 98 Workshop