Online Education Community: AlgoViz Portal  Static Content: Documentation for over 500 AVs, their description and evaluation  Community-driven content.

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Online Education Community: AlgoViz Portal  Static Content: Documentation for over 500 AVs, their description and evaluation  Community-driven content  User reviews and ratings of Algorithm visualizations,  Discussion of best practice  “Field Reports” – actual experiences with algorithm visualization in the classroom  OpenAlgoViz: Open Source AVs contributed by developers Online Education Community: AlgoViz Portal  Static Content: Documentation for over 500 AVs, their description and evaluation  Community-driven content  User reviews and ratings of Algorithm visualizations,  Discussion of best practice  “Field Reports” – actual experiences with algorithm visualization in the classroom  OpenAlgoViz: Open Source AVs contributed by developers Encourage User Contribution  Introduce community-oriented services: forums, ratings, field reports, tagging, bookmark, notifications.  Field Reports: descriptions of how individual instructors used specific AVs in their course.  Notification: Mechanism for notifying the community members of  information from online content  Information from community contributions  Notification streams: Notifications come in ways that the participants naturally use  Traditional dissemination mechanism – forum, , blogs, newsletter  Social networking streams: Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds, etc. Encourage User Contribution  Introduce community-oriented services: forums, ratings, field reports, tagging, bookmark, notifications.  Field Reports: descriptions of how individual instructors used specific AVs in their course.  Notification: Mechanism for notifying the community members of  information from online content  Information from community contributions  Notification streams: Notifications come in ways that the participants naturally use  Traditional dissemination mechanism – forum, , blogs, newsletter  Social networking streams: Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds, etc. Lower Barriers to Participation  Easy registration and login mechanism  OpenID  RPX login  Content Management System (Drupal)  Database support for better search  Members can create or edit contents  Easy mechanism for ratings and comments  Better connectivity with other sites and members  Twitter and Facebook integration  Notification, , instant messaging for members  Track user activity  Better tracking allows us to provide better services Lower Barriers to Participation  Easy registration and login mechanism  OpenID  RPX login  Content Management System (Drupal)  Database support for better search  Members can create or edit contents  Easy mechanism for ratings and comments  Better connectivity with other sites and members  Twitter and Facebook integration  Notification, , instant messaging for members  Track user activity  Better tracking allows us to provide better services Factors of Success for Online Education Community  Successful online education communities need more than a digital library model.  An online community can succeed only if there is a sufficient level of contribution and of community activity.  To gain critical mass of activity  Lower barriers to participation – build system to encourage community activity  Site reliability  Ease of Use  Provide active incentives to participate  Example: Amazon - A successful online community  User ratings and reviews add major value Factors of Success for Online Education Community  Successful online education communities need more than a digital library model.  An online community can succeed only if there is a sufficient level of contribution and of community activity.  To gain critical mass of activity  Lower barriers to participation – build system to encourage community activity  Site reliability  Ease of Use  Provide active incentives to participate  Example: Amazon - A successful online community  User ratings and reviews add major value Other Education Communities  Connexions Project – online, open access textbooks  MERLOT – collection of online learning material  ENSEMBLE –a distributed portal for computing education resources.  CSTA –Computer Science Teachers Association Other Education Communities  Connexions Project – online, open access textbooks  MERLOT – collection of online learning material  ENSEMBLE –a distributed portal for computing education resources.  CSTA –Computer Science Teachers Association Monika Akbar, Alexander Joel Alon, Michael Stewart, Clifford A. Shaffer, Stephen H. Edwards Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech {amonika, alon, tgm, shaffer, Education Material Service: To encourage member participation System: To support community activity NSDL Grant No: DUE