Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University; Abhishek Gummadi, North Carolina State University; Reejesh Kadanjoth, North Carolina State University; Yvonne Marie Andrés, Global Schoolnet.org

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

, can be accomplished by a simple extension tostudent peer review.Expertiza [1, 2] is a Web-based system for peer-reviewing student work. After studentssubmit their work by uploading a file or writing on a wiki, other students are assigned toreview their work. Author and reviewer communicate in double-blind fashion using rubrics.The reviewer fills out a rubric that includes several questions about the author’s work, as Page 15.886.2 Figure 1. Filling out a review formProceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 1Copyright ∏ 2010, American Society for

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

contributed.Several assessment strategies have been suggested. • Self-assessment: Students write up summaries of their contributions to the wiki and submit them to the instructor. • Group-based assessment: Students work in groups, and rate the contributions of each group member, as well as suggesting a grade for the group as a whole. • Instructor/TA assessment: The instructor or teaching assistant assigns a grade and gives feedback without any outside assistance. Page 13.230.2 • Expert assessment: Links to the wiki pages are provided to outside experts, who assess the contributions.Proceedings of the 2008

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

carried out online in a lab, or usinglaptops. A “scavenger hunt” gets students to work in pairs to surf the Web for answers toquestions posed by the instructor. In another kind of exercise, students can be assigned to comeup with new examples, or exercises, for the text, and then submit to an online peer-reviewsystem, where their work is reviewed by others, and the best work selected to be presented tofuture classes. Another strategy is to have students prepare resources to share with the class.They post these on a wiki, and the lectures become class meetings with an agenda posted on thewiki. The instructor moderates the meeting, and a student takes the minutes, and posts them onthe Web. Peer assessment is used for all contributions. The paper

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Verleger, Purdue University; Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

a required first-year engineering course with enrollments of as many as 1700 students in agiven semester. The earliest MEA implementations had student teams write a single solution to aproblem in the form of a memo to the client and receive feedback from their TA. For researchpurposes, a simple static online submission form, a static feedback form, and a single databasetable were quickly developed. Over time, research revealed that students need multiple feedback,revision, and reflection points to address misconceptions and achieve high quality solutions. As aresult, the toolset has been expanded, patched, and re-patched multiple developers to increaseboth the functionality and the security of the system. Because the class is so large and

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mudasser Wyne, National University, San Diego, USA; Anil Kumar Domakonda, National University, San Diego, USA; Pradeep Goutam, National University, San Diego, USA; Jayanth Kadlur, National University, San Diego, USA

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

Science Program and Information Systems Program. In addition, he is a guest editor for a journal, associate editor and serving on editorial boards for four international journals. He has also served as Chair and Co-Chair of numerous conferences, workshops, tracks and panels, in addition to serving on the program committee for around 30 international conferences. Dr. Wyne has given invited talks on numerous occasions and published number of articles in peer reviewed international journals and peer reviewed international conferences.Anil Kumar Domakonda, National University, San Diego, USA I have an undergraduate degree in Computer science and Information Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton Kussmaul, Muhlenberg College

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

. Page 13.952.7 4. View the list of tickets. 5. Accept the ticket assigned to you. 6. Create a wiki page for yourself, using the link on the main course page. (WikiFormatting is a good reference.) 7. Update the ticket. 1. Ask someone to review your wiki page. 2. Explain anything in particular they should look for. 3. Assign the ticket to the next person in the list of names. 8. View the list of tickets. 9. Accept the updated ticket assigned to you. 10. Review the wiki page. 1. If you find problems, update the ticket and assign it back to the author. 2. If you don't find problems, close the ticket.Similarly, activity 2 (below) introduces students to peer review with a wiki. In some cases, it

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

-visual aids, Power Point Presentations, Tutorials, Problem-solving sessions, written research reports, peer group discussions, etc.) to communicate with students who may prefer to have different learning styles. The author also recommends that students utilize the resources that are readily available at the university, such as Library. Writing Center, etc. Figure 1 shows the four important components of assessment. Appendix A shows the rubrics that were used to carry out assessment. The author used a rubric that is very much similar to Washington State University’s Critical Thinking Rubric while administering grading. The data obtained was tabulated using a Likert Scale. The author has collected data

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

surveys, one of studentswho took open-book open-Web exams, and one of instructors who administered onlineexams.1. IntroductionIn today’s world, tests and exams are given in an environment that is increasingly artificial.Most technical work is done with computers. Few people would attempt to write acomputer program, analyze forces on a building, or even write a piece of prose, without theaid of a computer. But that’s just the kind of environment we place our students in whenthey take an exam.All of the leading learning-management systems and textbook publishers have online testingmodules that can be used to deliver quizzes or exams. However, few instructors havecompletely done away with paper exams. Online exams preclude certain types of questions

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hetal Jasani, Northern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

for the LinksysStudents observe various MAC layer setting of Linksys wireless routers such as authenticationtype, CTS protection mode, beacon interval, DTIM interval, fragmentation threshold, and RTSthreshold. Students get knowledge about each of these parameters and how they affect theperformance of wireless networks. Students write a reflection report by including thoseparameters. 172.31.11.44/29 Lab Router Internet 10.255.1.1/16 10.255.1.2/16 Linksys Wireless

Conference Session

Computing Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Bailey, Brigham Young University; Barry Lunt, Brigham Young University; Gordon Romney, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

-spectrum communications,and of course, the computer.Over time, these technologies flowed from the defense research labs to industrial andacademic institutions. Inevitably, as the research progressed in these technologies, abody of knowledge was built up which began to be transferred to bright students. At thetime of this writing, academic courses are being taught in Universities all around theworld in each of these subjects, and in the case of computers, several distinct degreeprograms have formed around the technology.There is little doubt that computer technologies have had great impact on society. It isdifficult to find a workplace without a computer, from the corporate offices teaming withcomputer-laden cubicles to the plumbing contractor who

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Smith, U. of St. Thomas - St. Paul

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

assesspossible vulnerabilities. They perform simple risk assessments in which they must balance theimpact of security measures against the potential reduction in risk. They also write security plansin which they describe the security measures that must be implemented to block specificweaknesses in a system.Each type of student work here is considered in the light of Bloom’s taxonomy for cognitivelearning objectives4. In Bloom’s taxonomy, there are six levels of cognitive learning objectives: Page 13.255.6 • 1. Knowledge • 2. Comprehension • 3. Application • 4. Analysis • 5. Synthesis • 6. EvaluationThe upper 3 are generally

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

space. with their laptop computers to write lab reports and papers. Figure 6. Collaboration A portion of the room is utilized as student project space. Students in area whiteboarding space. the courses that require access to hardware are assigned resources in the data center laboratory, as well as a set of commodity desktopcomputer systems for their use to complete class projects and research projects. Each studentstation consists of a cart (on wheels), a small gigabit Ethernet switch, monitor, keyboard, mouse,and four Dell Optiplex 260 computers. These project stations are on wheels, and students canwheel them out