A web-based intelligent tutoring system teaching nursing students fundamental aspects of biomedical technology

Author

Koutsojannis, C. ; Prentzas, J. ; Hatzilygeroudis, I.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Patras Univ., Greece

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

4024

Abstract

In this paper, we present the architecture of a Web-based Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) for distant education of nursing students in fundamental aspects of the most common medical equipment. It offers course units covering the needs of users with different knowledge levels and characteristics. It tailors the presentation of the educational material to the users´ diverse needs by using AI techniques to specify each user´s model as well as to make pedagogical decisions. This is achieved via an expert system that uses a hybrid knowledge representation formalism integrating symbolic rules with neurocomputing.

Keywords

Internet; biomedical education; knowledge representation; medical expert systems; teaching; distant education; health care technology; hybrid knowledge representation formalism; neurocomputing; nursing students teaching; pedagogical decisions; symbolic rules; web-based intelligent tutoring system; Artificial intelligence; Biomedical computing; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical equipment; Computer architecture; Computer science education; Educational programs; Expert systems; Intelligent systems; Medical services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7211-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2001.1019728

Filename

1019728