Research

Advancing the science of educational software production

Publications & Dissemination

Journal articles

Hand, V. , Roschelle, J. and DiGiano, C. (to appear), Towards a Coherent On-line Collection of Tools for Math Learning, Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA), www.joma.org.

Chung, M. and DiGiano, C. (to appear), A Primer on Reuse, Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA), www.joma.org.

Repenning, A., Ioannidou, A., Payton, M., Ye, W., & Roschelle, J. (2001). Using Components for Rapid Distributed Software-Development. IEEE Software, 18(2), 38-45.

Repenning, A., A. Ioannidou, and J. Zola (2000), "AgentSheets: End-User Programmable Simulation," Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 3.

Zola, J. and A. Ioannidou (2000), "Learning and Teaching with Interactive Simulations," Social Education, Vol. 64 (3), pp. 142-145, April 2000.

Repenning, A., and C. Perrone (2000), "Programming by Analogous Examples," Communications of the ACM, Vol. 43, pp. 90-97, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/Interaction
2000.pdf.

AERA 2000 Final proposal

Hand, V. and de Frondeville, T. Square Bowling: A middle school mathematics activity that explores fractions as scaling ratios using ESCOT software components in an online format.

Ioannidou, A. & Repenning, A. (August, 1999). End-User Programmable Simulations. Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Kahn, T. (1999) Designing Virtual Communities for Creativity and Learning. Edutopia, 6.2 (online edition), The George Lucas Educational Foundation, Spring, 1999 issue. Available at: http://glef.org/edutopia/newsletters/6.2/kahn.html

Roschelle, J., DiGiano, C., Koutlis, M., Repenning, A., Phillips, J., Jackiw, N., Suthers, D. "Developing Educational Software Components." IEEE Computer, 32(9), pp. 50-58, 1999.

Repenning, A., Ioannidou, A., & Ambach, J. (1998). Learn to Communicate and Communicate to Learn. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/98/7, 98(7).

Roschelle J., Kaput, J., Stroup W., Kahn, T. (1998) Scalable integration of educational software: Exploring the promise of component architectures Journal of Interactive Media in Education.

Books & one-time publications

DiGiano, C., Roschelle, J., and Chung, M. (to appear). The Need for a Coordinated Engineering Discipline for the Production of Educational Software. To appear in Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies.

Repenning, A. (to appear). End-User Programmable Simulations in Education. In HCI International 2001, New Orleans.

Repenning, A. & Ioannidou, A. (2001). Engaging Learners through Simulation-Based Design. In C. Daetwyler (Eds.), The use of Computers in (medical) Education (German title: Zeitschrift für Hochschuldidaktik) Austrian Association for Didactics in Higher Education.

DiGiano, C. & Roschelle, J. (2000). "Rapid-Assembly Componentware for Education," In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technologies at Palmerston North, New Zealand. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, pp. 37-40.

Roschelle, J. DiGiano, C., Chung, M., Repenning, A., Tager, S., Treinen, M (2000). "Reusability and Interoperability of Tools for Mathematics Learning: Lessons from the ESCOT Project." In Proceedings of Intelligent Systems & Applications at University of Wollongong, NSW Australia. ICSC Academic Press, Wetaskiwin, AB, Canada, pp. 664-669.

Repenning, A. (2000), "AgentSheets®: an Interactive Simulation Environment with End-User Programmable Agents," Interaction 2000, Tokyo, Japan, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/PDF/Interaction
2000.pdf

Repenning, A., A. Ioannidou, and J. Phillips (1999). "Collaborative Use & Design of Interactive Simulations," Proceedings of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference at Stanford (CSCL '99), http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/papers/abstracts/
cscl99.html

Roschelle, J., Pea, R., DiGiano, C., & Kaput, J. (1999). Educational software components of tomorrow. In M/SET 99 Proceedings [CD ROM], Charlottesville, VA: American Association for Computers in Education. Available at http://www.escot.org/docs/MSET_ESCOT.html

Cherry, G., Ioannidou, A., Ryder C., Brand C., Repenning A. (1999). Simulations for Lifelong Learning. National Educational Computing Conference, Atlantic City, NJ.

Roschelle, J. (1999). Forward. In B. Henderson, The components on online education. Saskatoon, Canada: University of Saskatchewan, Centre for the Study of Cooperatives. 1-4.

Products

As a testbed, ESCOT does not directly produce products, but rather ESCOT facilitates the production of products by its members. We are organizing testbed members for production of 20-40 Problems of the Week, which will be product/services available through the MathForum in September 1999 - May 2000. We are also producing ESCOT Runner and ESCOT Builder software tools, which may become available as Open Source products. In addition, we anticipate that our members will produce quite a few JavaBeans components for mathematics education, and some of these might become available as products. Work on the Agentsheets component has already led to a new variant of Agentsheets called AgentSheets/Beans (http://www.agentsheets.com/escot/).

Presentations

• Pea, R. D. (2001, June 2). Leveraging Distributed Expertise in Learning and Teaching with Technologies. Invited Keynote Address to the International Conference on Intelligent Multimedia and Distance Education, Fargo, ND.
• Roschelle, J., DiGiano, C., Underwood, J., Alejandre, S., and Repenning, R. (2001). Producing Interactive Problems of the Week: Component-Based Integration Teams. Presented at the National Educational computing Conference., Chicago.
• Hand, V., Underwood, J., and Nielsen, L. (2001). Teaming with teachers to integrate technology and curriculum: Lessons from the ESCOT Project. Presented at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting.
• Pea, R. D. (2001, February 19). Developments in distributed learning environments for middle school mathematics and teacher learning. AAAS Forum for School Science and Mathematics, Symposium: A Fresh Look at Technology in Support of Learning by All Students. San Francisco, CA.
• Pea, R. D. (2000, December 8). Leveraging Distributed Expertise in Learning and Teaching with Technologies. Intel's Education Forum: Trends and Opportunities in Education, Intel Architecture Laboratory, Hillsboro, Oregon.
• Pea, R. D. (2000, November 28-29). Critical tools for a distributed federation of learning technologies R&D: Simware, socioware, and other enablers. NSF Workshop on a Proposed Learning Federation, Washington DC. (also see http://207.21.219.248/).
• Pea, R. D. (2000, May 26). Towards Integrating the Sciences and Technologies of Learning for Education. University of Washington, Invited Colloquium to PETTT (Program for Educational Transformation through Technology). Seattle, WA.
• Pea, R.D. (2000, February 10). Networked improvement communities in K-12 education. Invited presentation to Doug Engelbart's Colloquium, " An In-Depth Look at The Unfinished Revolution in Computing and Society," Stanford University.
• Underwood, J., Alejandre, S., Nielsen, L., & Chung, M. (2000). The Math Forum and ESCOT Present: Interactive Mentored Problems of the Week, Workshop presented at the National Conference for Teachers of Mathematics, Chicago.
• Repenning, A. (2000). Presentation at Planetworkers conference, San Francisco, CA.
• Barnes, D., Underwood, J. & Roschelle, R. (April 2000). Educational software components of tomorrow. Presented at the American Education Research Association in New Orleans, LA.
• Roschelle, J. (2000). Tools to Increase Access to Advanced Mathematics Learning for All Children. Presentation at the Show Me Center Annual Conference, Branson MO.
• Pea, R.D. (1999, October 7). Learning in the age of collective intelligence. The ITU Conference, Oslo, Norway, Keynote address.
• Roschelle, J. & Jackiw, N. (1999). Component Software for Mathematics Classrooms, Presented at National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Francisco, April 23, 1999
• Barnes, D., Wasman, D., & Simms, K. (April 1999). Standards-based Mathematics Curricula: Analysis of the Role and Intended Use of Technology. Roundtable paper presentation at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec.
• Barnes, D. (March 1999). In the Middle of Curricula, Calculators, and the Web: Activities and Resources for Standards-based Mathematics. Presentation at NCTM Western Regional, Great Falls, MT.
• Roschelle, J. & Pea, R. (1999). Educational software components of tomorrow. Presented at the Sun Microsystems Education & Research Conference, San Francisco, February, 1999.
• Gina Cherry, Andri Ioannidou, Cyndi Rader, Cathy Brand, Alexander Repenning., "Simulations for Lifelong Learning," NECC '99, Atlantic City, NY, 1999.
• Kahn, T. (1999). Learning a living: Virtual design and learning communities. Invited presentation, Virtual Worlds/Sim '99, Society for Computer Simulation, Western Multiconference, San Francisco, January 20, 1999. http://www.scs.org/confernc/wmc99/text/vwsim.html
• Kahn, T. (1998). Building virtual learning and knowledge design communities. Invited presentation and participant, "Genes, Teens and the World Wide Web." The Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, November 22-24, 1998. http://vector.cshl.org/resources/genesteens.html
• Pea, R. (1998)."Hot technologies" for net learning advances. Invited address and discussion with the Canadian TeleLearning-NCE Board of Directors, Vancouver, British Columbia, November 14, 1998.
• Pea, R. (1998). Prospecting the future of learning technologies and communities: Ecological trends and the questions they raise. Invited keynote address to the Global Learning Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 20, 1998.
• Roschelle, J., Kaput, J., Jackiw, N., Ioannidou, A. (1998). Invited Presentations at New Tools in Education: New Practices conference, in Athens, Greece, September 1998.

Outreach Activities

• DiGiano, C. Chung, M., & Tager, S. (2000). Demonstrated ESCOT to Sun Microsystems JavaBeans and Swing team.
• DiGiano, C. Chung, M., & Tager, S. (2000). Visited AppStream, Inc. about delivering Java activities to schools in as effeciently as possible.
• DiGiano, C. (2000). Presented ESCOT at NSF-sponsored EU/US meeting at UCSD.
• Peyton, M. (2000). Visited or contacted all schools in Boulder Valley School District.
• Kahn, T. (2000). Participation in National Academy of Sciences Workshop on "The Future of Information Technologies for Undergraduate Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education" (June 20-21, 2000)
• Repenning, A. (2000) Demonstrated ESCOT to Jan Hauser (Principal Architect at Sun Microsystems) at Planetworker conference in San Francisco, CA.
• Repenning, A. (2000) Presented ESCOT at SchoolTECH expo in New York.
• Kahn, T. Participated in ShowMe Center National Advisory Board Meeting, Alexandria VA, February 2-3,2000
• Repenning, A. (2000) Presented ESCOT to a series of Japanese companies: Sony CSL Research labs, SRA International, NTT Research Labs, ATR Research Labs, NAIST University, PFU.
• Roschelle, J. (2000) Tools to Increase Access to Advanced Mathematics Learning for All Children. Presentation at the Stanford Learning Laboratory.
• Design. In PFU L3D Workshop 1999, Breckenridge, CO.
• Roschelle, J. (September 1999). Presented ESCOT at the EOE Foundation series on Open Source and Education.
• Reppening, A. (June 1999). Presented ESCOT at an NSF workshop on Complex Systems and K-16 Education, a planning meeting for a new initative in this area. See http://necsi.org/events/cxedk16.html
• Roschelle, Pea, & DiGiano, meetings with Henry Kelly & Martha Livingston of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, June 2 & 4th, 1999
• Roschelle, participation in NSF-hosted SMETE Digital Libraries workshop (January 1999)
• Roschelle, invited discussant at the I3 Spring Days Workshops in Barcelona, Spain (March 1999)
• Canadian Mathematical Society Winter Meeting 98-99, Kingston, Canada, 12/98
• Invited Presentation to Deputy Secretary of Education Mike Smith, May 7, 1999.
• New developments in learning theory and supportive technologies. Digital innovations in K-12 Education, Zeum (Moscone Center), San Francisco, CA. (Sponsored by MDG.ORG, the Interactive Media Trade Association). (October 28, 1998).
• Issues in the design of distributed intelligence and the growth of virtual learning communities. Invited address and roundtable discussions for the University of California series on "The University in the 21st Century." U. California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education (October 13th 1998).
• TAPPED IN and ESCOT as two partnership networks for research innovation in learning technologies. Presentation to invited session to the Software Publishers Association on Successes in Commercializing Learning Technologies Research-Based Products, Chicago, IL. (September 13, 1998).

Evaluation

ESCOT Evaluation Research has four main fields of interest:

1. Integration Teams
2. Students
3. Teachers
4. Developers

It's also worth pointing out that this does not comprise all the "research" being done within ESCOT. There is also technical research on design patterns, and a design experiment around customizable applets. Both of these are not part of above evaluation.

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