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Piana High-Performance Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) Microservice Framework

2016-12 , Wang, Yu

The project “Piazzalytics” for the time being is, 1) to create a set of RestFul APIs to allow users extracting the entire online post information with the same hierarchical manner, 2) to persist the extracted data in the database and monitor the post communication, 3) to provide a functionality of notifying the users when new target posts/responses with desired keywords are created, and 4) finally to offer several analytical data services via the Restful APIs, including the historical records in the data warehouse and the data differential features. Although the current Piana data micro service project is still in its proof-of-concept stage, however, it has been already able to provide any further Piazza-related projects with the Piazza data service. Having said, this project could be even better if the JSON data from the Piazza could be further cleaned and reformatted to remove any irrelevant parts.

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Knowledge Space Framework An API for Representation, Persistence and Visualization of Knowledge Spaces

2016-05 , Nasar, Syed

This paper discusses the challenges in tooling around the management and utilization of knowledge space structures, via standardized APIs for external Adaptive Learning Systems (ALS) to consume. It then describes how these challenges are addressed in a graph based knowledge management framework application designed for external ALSs.

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Reducing Cognitive Load Through Reminders

2016 , Bartlett, Samuel A.

Describes an experiment using email to reduce students' cognitive load.

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5G Cellular - An Energy Efficiency Perspective

2014-12 , Panchal, Deven

While the 5G technology of cellular communications promises great capacity and coverage to access information anywhere and anytime, it is feared to have huge power consumption. Significant research been has been directed towards solving this problem which exists both on the subscribers’ side as well as the operators’ side. There have been efforts like predicting traffic, modifying the physical layer etc. towards making the 5G technology more energy efficient. The aim of this study is to see the technology enablers for 5G from an energy efficiency perspective. Efforts will be made to point out specific areas in 5G cellular where improvements or modifications could make 5G cellular more energy efficient.

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Web Application to Teach Elementary School Students Sentence Parts via Diagramming

2016-12 , Scherer, Carl Geary, Jr.

While many educators avoid the subject of diagramming sentences when teaching English sentence parts and grammar, this paper presents a web application that leverages simplified sentence diagramming to teach or reinforce existing knowledge of sentence parts in elementary school students. It uses a visual depiction of sentences that has several levels of complexity to appeal to varying age students and provides feedback that mimics an Intelligent Tutoring System to help students complete their learning goals.

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Perception of Peer Review in the OMSCS Program

2016-05 , Chanda, Sandeep

This study investigates the perception of OMSCS students on the topic of the current peer review process in the OMSCS program. This includes the discussion of the potential steps that could be taken to improve the peer review process. Peer feedback has been demonstrated to support students’ learning in traditional classroom models. But the same has not been established for online programs like the OMSCS. To address this gap, views of OMSCS students on the benefits and shortcomings of the current peer review process were examined. Results suggest that while some of the findings are similar to the ones noted in existing literature, some are unique to the OMSCS program. Again, there are several studies which provide recommendations to improve the reliability of peer reviews. This paper also discusses the relevance of these recommendations and their applicability to the OMSCS program.

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Reducing Students’ Cognitive Load Using Smartphones

2016 , Bartlett, Samuel A.

This paper reviews cognitive load theory and how it plays a role in student attrition, and describes an experiment performed to see if mobile apps will reduce cognitive load for students.

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ITS Analyzers - Meta-Analysis Research on the Effectiveness of Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) Products

2016-12 , Rao, Vinay , Guin, Gouri

Evaluation of intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) is an important area of research in current educational practices. There are many work has been done to analyse the effectiveness of various ITS products to aid student education. We focused on top 3 ITS products to compare and analyse individual ITS product outcome and its effectiveness. Additionally, we explored the current problems that may exist with measuring the effectiveness of ITS by conducting research study on different methods that are currently used.

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Duplicate Question Detection Using Online Learning

2016 , Siu, Chapman

An integral part the learning experiences for both on-campus and off-campus courses are online communities such as Piazza. Piazza is described as a “Q&A” forum which is created for every class. An integral part of many online communities is the concept of “voting” to determine popular and useful information. However in many class orientated forums, this feature is not emphasized as post relevance tends to change relative to course assessments. Creating a way to understand quality posts can be beneficial for students and instructors, as it will reduce the clutter in the community by allow students to ”see” important posts in the follow up section of different threads and for instructors to identify potential experts and teaching assistant candidates for future classes. In this project, we aim to develop suitable approach for understanding quality of posts through introducing online machine learning techniques to assist with reducing clutter within young online communities.

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Enabling Software Defined Optical Networks

2015 , Panchal, Deven

This paper gives an overview of Software Defined Optical Networks (SDON’s) and how they can be implemented. It traces the evolution of Optical networks upto GMPLS and traces the idea of SDN and builds upto OpenFlow. The paper explores the need for SDON’s and explains what a SDON solution could look like, including the hardware. It also seeks to explain how OpenFlow could be used as a part of this solution to overcome the limitations of GMPLS.

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