Abstract: The goal of this talk is to provide an overview of projects hosted by DIST Teaching and Learning Research (TaLeR) lab. TaLeR lab  was established in 2001 to design, develop, and evaluate educational tools that can support students in learning and professors in teaching Information Science courses. Over the last years we developed a number of useful tools that are currently serving as a basis for both - practical teaching and several research projects. Following the nature of the lab, the talk will include a teaching-oriented component and a research-oriented component. In the teaching-oriented component I will demonstrate several tools that we use in the context of introductory programming, data structures, and information retrieval courses. All tools are available through the Web and are ready to be used by any interested instructor. In the research-oriented component I will present some results of our recent projects investigating the influence of individualized self-assessment quizzes in an introductory programming course.

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