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Kevin Almeroth
UC Santa Barbara
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Deploying an Infrastructure for Technologically Enhanced Learning
Kevin Almeroth; Sami Rollins
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1651–1656
A number of university campuses have undertaken the development of digital classrooms that enable presentation of digital media and digital lecture recording. Deploying the infrastructure for a digital classroom is difficult at best even for a...
Topics: Classrooms, Educational Technology
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Lessons Learned Deploying a Digital Classroom
Sami Rollins; Kevin Almeroth
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 15, No. 2 (April 2004) pp. 169–185
A number of university campuses have undertaken the development of digital classrooms that enable presentation of digital media and digital lecture recording. While educators from across disciplines are interested in using the facilities these...
Topics: Educational Technology, evaluation of deployment, Classrooms
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Automatic Plagiarism Detection with PAIRwise 2.0
Allan Knight; Kevin Almeroth
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 22, No. 3 (July 2011) pp. 379–400
As part of the research carried out at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), the Paper Authentication and Integrity Research (PAIR) project was launched. We began by investigating how...
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Moodog: Tracking Student Activity in Online Course Management Systems
Hangjin Zhang; Kevin Almeroth
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 21, No. 3 (July 2010) pp. 407–429
Many universities are currently using Course Management Systems (CMSes) to conduct online learning, for example, by distributing course materials or submitting homework assignments. However, most CMSes do not include comprehensive activity tracking...
Topics: Students, Learning Management Systems, Computer Sciences, Educational Technology, Software
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Supplement to Distance Learning: Design for a Remote TA Support System
Hangjin Zhang; Kevin Almeroth
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 2821–2830
Usually one or more Teaching Assistants (TAs) are working onsite to help students during discussion sections, during office hours, or with lab assignments. However, in an environment where distance learning is used, an onsite TA might not be...
Topics: Computer Sciences, Students
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Alternatives for Monitoring and Limiting Network Access to Students in Network-Connected Classrooms
Kevin Almeroth; Hangjin Zhang
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 24, No. 3 (July 2013) pp. 237–265
With the advent of laptop computers and network technology, many classrooms are now being equipped with Internet connections, either through wired connections or wireless infrastructure. Internet access provides students an additional source from...
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A Simple Classroom Network Access Control System
Hangjin Zhang; Kevin Almeroth
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 967–976
With the advent of laptop computers and network technology, many classrooms are now being equipped with Internet connections, either through wired connections or wireless infrastructure. Internet access provides students an additional source from...
Topics: Computers, Internet, Classrooms, Networking Technologies, System Configurations
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Improving Speaker Training with Interactive Lectures
Mathias Kölsch; Kristian Kvilekval; Kevin Almeroth
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 821–824
Feedback has always been a cornerstone of the learning process. Advances in mobile devices and wireless connectivity promise closer and better feedback between speakers and audiences. In this paper we discuss a system allowing both real-time and...
Topics: Computer Sciences
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Design, Implementation and Deployment of PAIRwise
Allan Knight; Kevin Almeroth; Bruce Bimber
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 19, No. 3 (July 2008) pp. 489–508
Increased access to the Internet has dramatically increased the sources from which students can deliberately or accidentally copy information. This article discusses our motivation to design, implement, and deploy an Internet based plagiarism...
Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Ethical Issues, Instructional Materials, Culture, Software
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An Activity Monitoring System to Support Classroom Research
Hangjin Zhang; Kevin Almeroth; Monica Bulger
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1444–1449
More effort has focused on integrating instructional technologies into classrooms than has focused on assessing the impact of these technologies on teaching and learning performance. To evaluate whether computer technology is beneficial to the...
Topics: Classrooms, Computers
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An Automated System for Plagiarism Detection Using the Internet
Allan Knight; Kevin Almeroth; Bruce Bimber
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3619–3625
In this paper we present a framework for plagiarism detection. Rather than exhaustively or randomly searching sentences in a student paper on the Internet for possible sources of borrowed ideas in student's text, we take a middle ground. With...
Topics: Internet, Students, Computer Sciences
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Managing Complexity in a Networked Learning Environment
Jonathan Humfrey; Sami Rollins; Kevin Almeroth; Bruce Bimber
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 60–63
As more universities and research institutions develop digital classrooms, a common theme is arising: the need to manage complexity. As more technology is added in order to facilitate the presentation, transmission and recording of digital media,...
Topics: Video, Engineering, Audio, Classrooms
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Data Café: A Dining Car Approach to Educational Research Data Management and Distribution
Allan Knight; Kevin Almeroth; Hangjin Zhang; Rich Mayer; Krista DeLeeuw
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4590–4600
Researchers are investigating the effect of technology-supported instructional methods on the learning process. One team investigating this effect is the Technology in Education (TIE) group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A problem...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Creating a Demarcation Point Between Content Production and Encoding in a Digital Classroom
Kevin Almeroth; Sami Rollins; Zhongnan Shen; Bruce Bimber
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2–5
Incorporating a large amount of technology into a classroom is an important, but extremely difficult task. In this paper we describe the next generation of the UCSB digital classroom, called the Collaborative Technologies Lab (CTL). We feel it is...
Topics: Classrooms
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Observations and Recommendations for Using Technology to Extend Interaction
Allan Knight; Kevin Almeroth; Rich Mayer; Dorothy Chun
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 299–306
Technology-facilitated collaboration is being widely deployed in modern classrooms. One way of promoting collaboration is to extend how students and instructors interact. This paper describes how Personal Response Systems (PRS), lecture slides and...
Topics: Interaction, Collaboration, Classrooms, Computer Sciences
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Engaged by Design: Using Simulations to Promote Active Learning
Monica Bulger; Richard E. Mayer; Kevin C. Almeroth
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1770–1777
We test our hypothesis that student in-class Internet actions reflect their attention levels. We predict that an engaging learning environment will result in students performing a higher number of on-task Internet activities. To test our hypothesis, ...
Topics: Internet, Students, Classrooms, Behavior
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Moodog: Tracking students' Online Learning Activities
Hangjin Zhang; Kevin Almeroth; Allan Knight; Monica Bulger; Richard Mayer
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4415–4422
Many universities are currently using a Course Management System (CMS) to organize course materials and conduct online learning activities. However, most commercial or open source CMS software does not include comprehensive access tracking and log...
Topics: Instructional Materials, Learning Management Systems, Students
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Technology and Plagiarism in the University: Brief Report of a Trial in Detecting Cheating
Rob Patton; Diane Johnson; Bruce Bimber; Kevin Almeroth; George Michaels
AACE Journal Vol. 12, No. 3 (July 2004) pp. 281–299
College students exploit information technology to cheat on papers and assignments, but for the most part university faculty employ few technological techniques to detect cheating. This paper reports on a trial of software for the detection of...
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Measuring Learner Engagement in Computer-Equipped College Classrooms
Monica E. Bulger; Richard E. Mayer; Kevin C. Almeroth; Sheridan D. Blau
Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 17, No. 2 (April 2008) pp. 129–143
** Invited as a Paper From ED-MEDIA 2006 ** Although engagement and learning appear linked, quantitatively measuring this relationship is challenging. New technologies offer a window into studying the interactions among classroom activity,...
Topics: Computer Sciences, Virtual Environments, Research Methods, eLearning, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Computers, Interaction