IR and Teachers

Research agenda focused on the retrieval of online resoures to support teachers. This requires designing and developing new search and recommendation strategies so that they can enable identification of resources that can foster student learning and/or support classroom instruction.

Publications

Emiliana Murgia, Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “All Together Now: Teachers as Research Partners in the Design of Search Technology for the Classroom”. In Proceedings of the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec 2021), co-located with ACM IDC 2021.

Monica Landoni, Theo Huibers, Maria Soledad Pera, and Jerry Alan Fails. 2021. “5th KidRec Workshop: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher”. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2021). ACM, 658-661 pp. DOI:10.1145/3459990.3460655.

Garrett Allen, Katherine Landau Wright, Jerry Alan Fails, Casey Kennington, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2021. “CASTing a Net: Supporting Teachers with Search Technology”. In Proceedings of the 5th International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Children and Recommender and Information Retrieval Systems: Search and Recommendation Technology through the Lens of a Teacher (KidRec 2021), co-located with ACM IDC 2021.

Michael D. Ekstrand, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2020. “Enhancing Classroom Instruction with Online News”. Aslib Journal of Information Management. DOI:10.1108/AJIM-11-2019-0309.

Michael D. Ekstrand, Ion Madrazo Azpiazu, Katherine Landau Wright, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Retrieving and Recommending for the Classroom: Stakeholders, Objectives, Resources, and Users”. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Recommendation in Complex Scenarios (ComplexRec 2018), at RecSys 2018.

Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Wright, Michael D. Ekstrand. 2018. “Recommending Texts to Children with an Expert in the Loop”. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Children & Recommender Systems (KidRec 2018), co-located with ACM IDC 2018.

Katherine Landau Wright, David McNeill, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Supplementing Classrooms Texts with Online Resources”. At the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Northwest Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association.

Katherine Landau Wright, David McNeill, Michael D. Ekstrand, and Maria Soledad Pera. 2018. “Supplementing Classrooms Texts with Online Resources”. In American Educational Research Association Conference.