The Avenue Platform: Redefining World Language E-Assessment

Lucas Lecheler; Charles Miller; Bradford Hosack; Susan Rose; Simon Hooper

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1213–1221

The Avenue platform, designed and developed by faculty and staff in Learning Technologies, Educational Psychology, and the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota, is an innovative online performance assessment framework comprised of two...

Topics: Instructional Design, Tools & Systems

InfoViz and Online Learning: How Design can influence Decision-Making

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Lucas Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 1132–1138

Information visualization involves the visual, and sometimes interactive, presentation and organization of complex data in a clear, compelling, and convincing representation. Although information visualization research and methods are prevalent in...

Role-Based Design: Rethinking Innovation and Creativity in Instructional Design

Charles Miller; Brad Hokanson; Simon Hooper

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1804–1811

We believe the process of instructional design is in need of foundational transformation, from one of following a codified algorithm to a new way of designing that uses specific roles to define project values, responsibilities, and activities. In...

InfoViz for Education: Using Interactive Information Visualization to Enhance Sense- and Decision-Making for Teachers and Students

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Luke Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1798–1803

Information visualization involves the visual, and sometimes interactive, presentation and organization of complex data in a clear, compelling, and convincing representation. Although information visualization research and methods are prevalent in...

Design and Development of a Reading, Writing, and Language e-Assessment Environment for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing K-8 Learners

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose; Luke Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1792–1797

Hearing loss has a devastating impact on the development of children’s English-language literacy skills. This paper presents a narrative of the design, development, and future integration of a web-based progress-monitoring environment in the area of ...

AvenueDHH: Reading, Writing and Language e-Assessment for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Learners

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 3735–3741

Hearing loss has a devastating impact on the development of children’s English-language literacy skills. This paper presents a narrative of the design, development, and future integration of a web-based progress-monitoring environment in the area of ...

Transforming E-Assessment in American Sign Language: Pedagogical and Technological Enhancements in Online Language Learning and Performance Assessment

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose; Michael Montalto-Rook

Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 33, No. 3 (September 2008) pp. 155–168

The rapid increase in demand for American Sign Language (ASL) instruction between 1998 and 2002 created pervasive challenges in effectively assessing and documenting ASL learner performance. To address these challenges, we designed and developed the ...

"Avenue ASL:" Transforming Curriculum through Design and Innovation

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Susan Rose

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 52, No. 2 (April 2008) pp. 27–32

Between 1998 and 2002, enrollment in American Sign Language (ASL) curricula at the postsecondary level has increased 433% nationally, representing the largest enrollment percentage gain of all world languages. This unprecedented demand for ASL...

The Effects of Digital Video Quality on Learner Comprehension in an American Sign Language Assessment Environment

Simon Hooper; Charles Miller; Susan Rose; George Veletsianos

Sign Language Studies Vol. 8, No. 1 (2007) pp. 42–58

The effects of digital video frame rate and size on American Sign Language (ASL) learner comprehension were investigated. Fifty-one students were randomly assigned to one of three video-size treatment groups: 480x360, 320x240, and 240x180 pixels....

Avenue ASL: Transforming Language Assessment and Learning through Networked Video Integration

Simon Hooper; Charles Miller; George Veletsianos

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 3919–3924

Avenue ASL, an integrated software environment to capture, evaluate, self-assess, and manage American Sign Language (ASL) performance, is being developed at the University of Minnesota to improve student language learning and increase the efficiency ...

Topics: Assessment, Software, Students, Languages, Video