Development of Production System for Anywhere and Class Practice

Abs tract. The authors have developed a web-based production system that users can use whenever and anywhere by the Internet. The authors held two cognitive science introductory classes with the system. In our class activities, participants were required to construct running cognitive models on the production system architecture that can solve pulley problems. The participants not only constructed cognitive models but also produced original problems, which were distributed to the other class members. The participants found the defects in their models while trying to solve the problems from other members and trying to improve their models. A posttest indicated that the participants who successfully constructed high performance models revealed deeper understanding of pulley systems.