Lawrence Angrave

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Lawrence provides Undergraduate Research Opportunities through ClassTranscribe project and Scribe Augmented Reality Project. Summer internships, independent study, senior thesis and other credit earning activities are possible.

Research Interests

• Accessible Education
• Effective computer science instruction at scale

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

• L. C. Angrave. System Programming, a crowd-sourced wiki-book experiment, 2014 - present
• L. C. Angrave. Dynamic Visualizer. Wolfram Publishing, 1998

Selected Articles in Journals

• Bhavya, B., Chen, S., Zhang, Z., Li, W., Zhai, C., Angrave, L., & Huang, Y. (2022). "Exploring collaborative caption editing to augment video-based learning." Educational technology research and development, 1-25.
• Tu, N., Zhang, B., Angrave, L., & Sun, T. (2021). bmggum: An R Package for Bayesian Estimation of the Multidimensional Generalized Graded Unfolding Model With Covariates. Applied Psychological Measurement, 45(7-8), 553-555.
• R.W. Crues, G.M. Henricks, M. Perry, S. Bhat, C. J. Anderson, N. Shaik, & L Angrave. "How do Gender, Learning Goals, and Forum Participation Predict Persistence in a Computer Science MOOC?" ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 18(4), 2017

Articles in Conference Proceedings

• Lawrence Angrave,Jiaxi Li, Ninghan Zhong (2022) Creating TikToks, Memes, Accessible Content, and Books from Engineering Videos? First Solve the Scene Detection Problem. ASEE 2022 Conference Proceedings
• Hongye Liu,Lawrence Angrave,David Dalpiaz,Chrysafis Vogiatzis,Zhiyuan Xiao,Sujit Varadhan,Jeremy Louie,Deepak Moparthi,Jennifer R Amos (2022). A Digital Book Based Pedagogy to Improve Course Content Accessibility for Students with and without Disabilities in Engineering or other STEM courses (WIP). ASEE 2022 Conference Proceedings
• Hongye Liu, Deepak Moparthi, Lawrence Angrave, Jennifer R Amos,David Dalpiaz,Chrysafis Vogiatzis,Sujit Varadhan, Rebecca Reck, Yun Huang (2022). Understanding the needs of students with and without disabilities for inclusive UDL-based design of Engineering courses through learning management systems. ASEE 2022 Conference Proceedings
• Jawad M., Javid T., Lualdi C., Angrave L. (2021) ScribeAR: Design and Use of Augmented-Reality Captioning for Inclusive Education Access. Proceedings of the ASEE-IL-IN Conference, Urbana, May 2021
• Zhang Z., Sui R., Angrave L., Mahipal C., Kooper R., Bhavya B., Huang Y. (2021) How Students Search Video Captions to Learn: An Analysis of Search Terms and Behavioral Timing Data. 2021 ASEE Conference Proceedings
• Phrabhu N, Ferreira R., Bhat S, Perry M, Angrave L (2021) Study Partners Matter: Impacts on Inclusion and Outcomes. Proceedings of the ASEE Conference, Long Beach CA, July, 2021
• Amos, J.R., Zhang, Z., Angrave, L., Liu, H., Shen, Y. , Vawani, K. (2021) A UDL-based large-scale study on the needs of students with disabilities in engineering courses. 2021 ASEE Conference Proceedings
• Amos J, Hongye L, Zhilin Z, Vanwani K, Angrave L (2021) A UDL-based large-scale study on the needs of students with disabilities in engineering courses, 2021 ASEE Conference Proceedings
• Bhat S, Angrave L, Perry M "Study Partners Matter: Impacts on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Outcomes" 2021 ASEE Conference Proceedings
• Amos J, Hongye L, Zhilin Z, Vanwani, K, Angrave L(2021) Qualitative Analysis of college students’ perception of multiple representations and modalities in courses. 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference
• Zhang Z, Angrave L et al (2021) "How Students Search Video Captions to Learn: An Analysis of Search Terms and Behavioral Timing Data", ASEE Conference Proceedings 2021
• Angrave L., Lualdi C, Timur M and T. Javid (2021) "ScribeAR: A New Take on Augmented-Reality Captioning for Inclusive Education Access", 2021 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference Proceedings
• Mussulman, D., Jensen, K., Amos, J. R., Angrave, L. C., Flanagan, K., Fagen-Ulmschneider, W., ... & Osborn, J. (2020, June). Measuring impact: Student and instructor experience using an online queue. In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings (Vol. 2020, p. 1005).
• Angrave L., Jensen K., Zhang Z., Mahipal C., Mussulman M., Schmitz C., Baird, R., Liu H., Sui R., Wu M., Kooper R. (2020). Improving student accessibility, equity, course performance, and lab skills: How introduction of ClassTranscribe is changing engineering education at the University of Illinois” Proceedings of ASEE Annual Virtual Conference 2020.
• Jay, V., Henricks, G., Bosch, N., Perry, M., Bhat, S. P., Williams-Dobosz, D., Angrave, L. C., & Shaik, N. (2020). Online discussion forum help-seeking behaviors of students underrepresented in STEM. In M. Gresalfi & I. S. Horn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Vol 2. (pp. 809-810). Nashville, TN: International Society of the Learning Sciences
• W Fagen-Ulmschneider, K.Jensen, C. Schmitz, J. Amos, D. Mussulman, K. Flanagan, L. Angrave, "Adoption of an Online Queue App for Higher Education: A Case Study" ASEE 2019
• Bosch, N., Huang, E., Angrave, L., & Perry, M. (2019). Modeling improvement for underrepresented minorities in online STEM education. In Proceedings of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2019) (pp. 327–335). New York, NY: ACM
• Angrave, L., Zhang Z., Henricks G., Mahipal C. (2019). Who Benefits? Positive Learner Outcomes From Behavioral Analytics of Online Lecture Video Viewing Using ClassTranscribe. SIGCSE 2020, Portland, OR: ACM
• Mahipal, C., & Angrave, L., & Xie, Y., & Chatterjee, B., & Wang, H., & Qian, Z. (2019, June), “What did I just miss?!” Presenting ClassTranscribe, an Automated Live-captioning and Text-searchable Lecture Video System, and Related Pedagogical Best Practices Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
• R. Sharrock, L. Angrave, E. Hamonic. "WebLinux: a scalable in-browser and client-side Linux and IDE." Learning At Scale (2018)
• N. Bosch, R. W. Crues, G. M. Henricks, M. Perry, L. Angrave, N. Shaik, S. Bhat & C. J.Anderson, (2018) "Modeling key differences in underrepresented students' interactions with an online STEM course." Proceeding of the Technology, Mind, and Society Conference
• R.W. Crues, N, Bosch, M. Perry, L. Angrave, N. Shaik, & S. Bhat,(2018). Refocusing the lens on engagement in MOOCs.Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale. New York
• J. Ren, M. Hasegawa-Johnson, L Angrave. "ClassTranscribe: a New Tool with New Educational Opportunities for Student Crowdsourced College Lecture Transcription." SLaTE 2015 -- Sixth Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education, September 4--5, 2015, Leipzig, Germany, Proceedings. p.179-180

Service on University Committees

• Accessible Video Broadcasting for Illinois System & Board of Trustee meetings (2021 - present)
• Technology Accessibility Review Committee (2019 - present)

Service on Department Committees

• CS Liaison to University of Washington Access Computing Group (2020 - present)
• Broadening Participation Committee (2019 - present)
• Chair of Academic Appeals Committee (2019-present)
• CS Promotion Committee For Specialized Faculty (2018 - 2020)
• Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards committee (2015 - 2018)

Service on Campus Committees

• Interdisciplinary Game Design Minor Articulation Working Group (2021)
• Campus-wide Caliper event data acquisition web service and faculty support (2019 - 2022)

Teaching Honors

• Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL) Faculty Fellow (2019-2021)
• Gies College of Business RC Evans Innovation Fellow (2019-2020)
• Computer Science Fisher Award (2018)
• Computer Science Distinguished Educator Award (2014)
• Illinois Student Senate Teaching Excellence Award (2012)
• Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2012)
• Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence (2011)
• Collins Award for Innovative Teaching (2011)
• Rose Award for Teaching Excellence (2009)

Recent Courses Taught

• CS 125 AL1 (CS 125 AL2, CS 125 AL3) - Intro to Computer Science
• CS 126 - Software Design Studio
• CS 199 241 (CS 199 341, CS 199 DYB) - De-Bug your Brain
• CS 241 (CS 341) - System Programming
• CS 296 41 - Honors Course
• CS 498 RK1 (CS 498 RK2, CS 498 VR3, CS 498 VR4) - Virtual Reality