CSE590D: Computer-Based Learning Environments

This quarter's discussions are focused around the research interests of the participants. The approximate schedule is as follows:
  1. Apr. 5. "BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage" by David P. Anderson. (R. Thompson). Issues: crowdsourcing of cycles vs human info-processing; "credit" as a motivator; common characteristics of successful BOINC projects; fault tolerance (needs and solutions); startup costs of a BOINC project; comparisons to CoSolve and Fold-it.
  2. Apr. 12. "Detecting and Understanding the Impact of Cognitive and Interpersonal Conflict in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Environments" by Prata, Baker, Costa, Rose, Cui and de Carvalho. (T. Robison). Issues: effects of anti-social behavior.
  3. Apr. 19. "Visualization of participation: Does it contribute to successful computer-supported collaborative learning?" by Janssen, Erkens, Kanselaar, and Jaspers. (S. Fan). Summary slides.
  4. Apr. 26. Prototyping Dynamics: Sharing Multiple Designs Improves Exploration, Group Rapport, and Results (Dow et al). (E. Andersen).
  5. May 3. The Efficacy of Prototyping Under Time Constraints (Dow et al, again). (Y.-E. Liu).
  6. May 10. A Hands-on Modeling Approach to Evolution: Learning about the Evolution of Cooperation and Altruism Through Multi-Agent Modeling - The EACH Project (Centola et al). (D. Broderick)
  7. May 17. Becoming a Wikipedian (T. Pavlik)
  8. May 24. No class.
  9. May 31. Brief summary of each paper and discussion of the common issues.
  10. June 7. Ideas for the Autumn seminar.