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Doctorate
(1998-2003)
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Sponsorship:
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The doctorate
work consisted on the proposal, development and test of a hierarchical
computational environment to facilitate the creation, organization and
management of courses to be available over the Internet, inserted on
the projects of Distance Education conducted by CDCC (Center for Scientifical
and Cultural Dissemination at the University of São Paulo at São Carlos).
Its initial objective was training public school teachers of Physics
and Sciences. The environment has a specialist system for the treatment
of online doubts called Online Doubt Managing System (ODMS), which became
an autonomous tool inside the Online Doubt Helping Center at CDCC/USP.
ODMS utilizes the concept of Education Intelligence through the use
of data mining, making it possible for instructors to select data, analyze
informations, identify trends and take decisions during a course carried
via Web. WebCourse is a hierarchical web-based tool for the creation
and management of web-based courses which consists of four modules:
WebCourse Instrutor (Instructor Module), WebCourse Monitor (Teacher
Assistant Module), WebCourse Aluno (Student Module) and WebCourse Administrador
(Administrator Module). Every module has a set of specific tools, developed
to meet the necessities of the environment's participant agents (instructors,
teacher assistants, students and administrators). The tool is said to
be hierarchical since some of its tools can only be used by certain
modules. Each module is highly connected to the others and every tool
is template-based, using the mSQL database's Lite scripting facility
in order to generate HTML files on-the-fly. All the system is managed
through a mSQL database, located on a web server, where data is stored
and recovered on demand. This work was sponsored by FAPESP (Grant
# : 98/11223-9). My supervisor was Prof.
Dr. Euclydes Marega Jr. (IFSC/USP)
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Reference
Doctorate
Thesis (Library
of the Institute of Physics of São Carlos, University
of São Paulo at São Carlos, Brazil)
"Proposta, Desenvolvimento e Teste de um Ambiente para
Criação e Gerenciamento de Cursos para Treinamento
de Professores na World-Wide Web".
Rafael Humberto Scapin, Instituto de Física de São
Carlos, USP, 2003, 163 p.
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Award
Received
The
doctorate project entitled "Development, Test and Evaluation of
Web-Based Tools for Teaching Physics on the Internet" was
selected as one of the best ones in the doctorate category in all
Brazil on December 1998 by the Distance Education Division of the
Ministry of Education and the Distance Education Research Supporting
Program (sponsored by the Brazilian Government). Total: US$ 2,500.
Only 3 projects in the doctorate category were selected in all Brazil.
The
project entitled "WebCourse: a Hierarchical Tool for the Creation
and Management of Online Courses on the WWW" participated on
the 17th Young Scientist Award (2001), promoted by CNPq (Brazilian
Research Council), which had the theme "New Methodologies for
Education". The project reached the final phase of selection.
Master's
(1996-1997)
During
my Master's degree course I've done research in the field of Distance
Education via WWW. I have developed a tool, called WebCourse,
a template-based tool that facilitates the creation of tests on the
World-Wide Web, providing also the automatic correction of them. WebCourse
is template based, using HTML forms created by CGI files that instructors
simply fill in to create tests. The questions possible are: Multiple
Choice (at least two alternatives); Essay; Filling the blanks True/False
The tool corrects automatically the questions of: Multiple Choice, Filling
the blanks and True/False. (there is an option to disable this feature.
In this mode, all the questions are corrected by the instructor). The
Essay questions are not corrected automatically. It's created a correction
environment for these questions. WebCourse was developed using the Perl
scripting language. Its features were created through the analysis of
similar tools already developed. My supervisor was Prof.
Dr. Álvaro Garcia Neto.
The Master course was concluded in 20 months. (Begining: February 1996
- Finish: October 1997). The title of my Master's dissertation, presented
on December 08th 1997, was: "Desenvolvimento de uma Ferramenta para
Criação e Correção Automáticas de Provas na World-Wide Web" (Development
of a Tool for the automatic creation and correction of tests on the
World-Wide Web).
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Reference
Master's
Dissertation (Library
of the Institute of Physics of São Carlos, University
of São Paulo at São Carlos, Brazil)
Desenvolvimento de uma Ferramenta para Criação
e Correção Automáticas de Provas na World-Wide
Web. Rafael Humberto Scapin, Instituto de Física de São
Carlos, USP, 1997, 111 p.
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