Title :
Atomic and Molecular Intelligent Tutoring Systems - A New Architecture for Interoperable Tutors as Open Educational Resources
Author :
Santos, Giovanni ; Jorge, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng. IST, Tech. Univ. of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
Due to interoperability issues, Intelligent Tutoring Systems are hard to deploy in the different educational platforms available nowadays. This represents a considerable limitation, since tutoring systems require substantial time and a lot of resources to be implemented. This paper describes a new architecture for developing open source and interoperable intelligent tutors. In our approach, "atomic" tutoring systems are grouped to create "molecular" tree structures covering the curriculum of courses. Based on standards, our approach provides interoperable and open source ITSs that can be retrieved from repositories of educational content, grouped when necessary, loaded into different educational platforms and have their code reused for incremental development.
Keywords :
intelligent tutoring systems; open systems; trees (mathematics); ITS; atomic tutoring systems; educational content; educational platforms; incremental development; interoperability issues; molecular intelligent tutoring systems; molecular tree structures; open educational resources; Computer architecture; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Problem-solving; Programming; Standards; Computers and Education; Distance learning; E-learining Standards; Intelligent Tutoring Systems;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2013.44