Resource Reuse in ie-TV

The convergence of communications and information technology within education, as well as more widely, means that concepts developed within ITS & AIED are now applicable to a wider range of wired, and more interestingly 'wireless', technologies. Interactive TV, supported by broadband broadcasting, offers interesting possibilities for education. The use of TV (and radio) in education has a long history 3⁄4 longer than the use of computers in education. But the traditions within which TV operates are rather different from those within which computers in education, and more particularly ITS & AIED systems operate. We can characterise ITS & AIED systems as being fundamentally concerned with individualising the experience of learners and supporting a range of representations and reifications of either the domain being explored or the learning process. The traditional division of the subject into student modelling, domain modelling, modelling teaching and interface issues reflects this concern with producing systems that react intelligently to the learner or group of learners using the system. Even where the system is simply a tool or a vehicle to promote collaboration (say), there will be a concern to monitor and perhaps adjust the parameters within which that collaboration takes place, if the system is to be regarded as of interest to the ITS & AIED community.