The project published its second newsletter with an update on piloting the plug-in prototype, an invitation to its final conference in Bari, Italy and some interesting inside information in the form of an interview with one of the developers on the process of developing a multi-agent based, user-friendly intelligent tutoring system to support online teachers, trainers, tutors and learners.

The project has launched a call for papers for its final conference aiming at collecting experiences, cases, visions, approaches on artificial intelligence use in learning environments. Please see the details in the previous post.

The newsletter can be viewed in html HERE.

We would be happy to hear what you think, comments are welcome and encouraged!

Professor George Angelos Papadopoulos from the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Cyprus) is one of the external experts working on the I-TUTOR project. Part of his expert report on the e-book “Intelligent tutoring system: an overview“ published by the project, he gave a valuable overview of some of the EU policies, related to education and training in general but also Technology Enhanced Learning in particular, which are relevant to the aims and scope of the I-TUTOR ITS.

He was kind enough to allow us to publish the relevant part, which you can download HERE.

The I-TUTOR website section Learn more has been completed with the links of references of the recently published e-book “Intelligent tutoring system: an overview“. This rich pool of resources is clustered in the following categories in order for you to find articles in topics you are interested more easily:

• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Cognitive models and their applications in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Data mining in education and training
• User profiling in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Instructional design and Learning Design in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

We would also like to invite all our site visitors and kind collaborators, to share with us if you have suggestions for further resources that we could include in the Learn more section. Please, leave your suggestions in the comment section for this post or by commenting the Learn more section.

Thank you in advance!

Giunti ormai a metà del progetto, i partner hanno deciso di pubblicare la prima newsletter al fine di condividere i traguardi raggiunti, tra cui uno studio approfondito dei sistemi di tutoring intelligenti (e le implicazioni del loro utilizzo nel contesto europeo), nonché un codice open source per un’indagine chatbot a cui sei invitato a partecipare.

È possibile consultare la newsletter in html QUI.

La vostra opinione è importante; inviateci i vostri commenti e suggerimenti.

Reaching the midterm in the project, the partnership published the first project newsletter to share the results achieved, among which you will find the comprehensive study about the intelligent tutoring systems (and the implications of using intelligent tutoring systems in the European scenario) as well as an open source code for a survey chatbot that you are welcome to test.

The newsletter can be viewed in html HERE.

We would be happy to hear what you think, comments are welcome and encouraged!

To download: Go here(PDF)

The I-TUTOR consortium has published the e-book “Intelligent tutoring system: an overview“. The report presents the outcomes of a large literature review and the implications of using intelligent tutoring systems in the European scenario.

The first chapter provides an historical excursus and a description of the ITS, from a pedagogical and didactical point of view. Starting from the first domains-centered ITS, to arrive to the ill-structured domains ITS, and finally to reach the actual solutions. In these new solutions, a shift can be seen from ITS that supports one to one learning and interaction to system for collaborative and social learning, from ITS for learning in tightly defined domains and educational contexts to open-ended learning in ill-defined domains across varied physical and social cultural settings and throughout the lifetime, from ITS to support knowledge acquisition to systems for knowledge construction, skills acquisition and reflexive, motivational and affective support, leaving a psychological approach to reach a more pedagogical approach. Actually, research is increasingly focusing on accessible, ubiquitous, wireless, mobile, tangible and distributed interfaces. The final aim is to develop systems that could be used widespread and on a large scale.

The second chapter analyses Cognitive Modeling and the classic modeling used by informatics designers in the ITS construction. The third chapter, data mining in education, examines potentials and constraints in the use of data mining in education, summarizing the potential they have to offer meaningful support to: students, teachers, tutors, authors, developers, researchers, and the education and training institutions in which they work and study. In the fourth chapter a literature review is presented, in order to summarizes directions and research paths in the use of user-profiling, trying to define the main topics that should be considered in future research. Finally, the fifth chapter analyses the basic elements of Instructional Design and the perspectives of the ITS research, dealing with the issue of educational design software. This kind of software allows teachers, even if they are not experts in informatics but only in technology of education, to design their didactic path with the support of software agents

The report is available as a free download in PDF. The EPUB format will be available soon.