Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: recommender-xblock
Version: 1.3.3
Summary: recommender XBlock
Home-page: https://github.com/edx/RecommenderXBlock
Author: edX
Author-email: oscm@edx.org
License: AGPL 3.0
Description: RecommenderXBlock
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        This XBlock shows students a list of recommended resources for a given
        problem. The resources are recommended, edited, and voted by students.
        For each resource, we show its title, link, short summary, preview
        screenshot, and votes:
        
        .. image:: recommender_xblock.png
           :alt: Recommender screenshot
        
        This is an module where students can share useful resources/hints and rate
        them. This crowdsourcing mechanism allows a scalable solution to fulfill
        students with varying learning needs.
        
        * Staff Interface: manage problematic resourse easier, add comments, endorse,
          de-endorse resource
        * Discussion around each resource
        * Better interface for adding varying types of resource (e.g., specific timestamps
          in the video or specific elements in a learning sequence)
        * Better user help/documentation
        * Tag/categorize resources around specific misconceptions
        
        In a randomized control trial in a computer science course, this XBlock led to 
        similar learning outcomes in about 10% less time than without it (so efficiency of 
        learning was about 10% better than without the XBlock -- students learned the same
        in less time). Qualitative analysis as well as quantitative analysis of usage data 
        showed it was helpful in contexts where there were complex, multiconcept problems. 
        It was not helpful or used in contexts where there were simple, single-step problems. 
        
        In an analysis comparing to other remediation systems within edX, it was more 
        effective for deeper, more complex misconceptions, and less effective for simple 
        errors. 
        
Keywords: Django edx
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Framework :: Django
Classifier: Framework :: Django :: 1.8
Classifier: Framework :: Django :: 1.9
Classifier: Framework :: Django :: 1.10
Classifier: Framework :: Django :: 1.11
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later (AGPLv3+)
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
