Lowering the Bar for Creating Model-Tracing Intelligent Tutoring Systems
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چکیده
The main goal of the work presented here is to allow for the broader dissemination of intelligent tutoring technology. To accomplish this goal, we have two clear objectives. First, we want to allow different types of people to author model-tracing intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) than can now do so. Second, we want to enable an author to create a tutor for software that was not initially designed with an ITS in mind. Accomplishing these two objectives should increase the number of such ITSs that are produced. We have created the first iteration of an authoring system that addresses both objectives. Non-cognitive scientists and non-programmers have used the system to create a tutor, and the system can interface with third-party software that was not originally designed with the ITS.
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