Pavel Simakov
Dr. Pavel Simakov is a Tech Lead for Google Cloud Platform DevOps products. Previously at Google, he led engineering for Area 120 (a Google startup incubator), and Course Builder (a Google open-source online adaptive learning & MOOC platform). Pavel also contributed to the technical architecture of Bridgewater Associates investment research, Google Payments platform, and PayPal merchant services. He loves building intelligent software systems contributing to strategy, product, architecture, and coding.
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Course Builder Skill Maps
Boris Roussev
Amit Deutsch
Michael Lenaghan
Mike Gainer
Proceedings of the Third (2016) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (2016), pp. 89-92
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In this paper, we present a new set of features
introduced in Course Builder that allow instructors to
add skill maps to their courses. We show how skill
maps can be used to provide up-to-date and actionable
information on students' learning behavior and
performance.
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Adding Third-Party Authentication to Open edX: A Case Study
Proceedings of the Second (2015) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 277-280
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In this document, we describe the third-party authentication system we added to Open edX. With this system, Open edX administrators can allow their users to sign in with a large array of external authentication providers. We outline the features and advantages of the system, describe how it can be extended and customized, and highlight reusable design principles that can be applied to other authentication implementations in online education.
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Sequence Server Samurai
Science, vol. 285 (1999), pp. 1226-1227
