Intelligent Authoring of Gamified Intelligent Tutoring System

Intelligent Tutoring Systems can successfully complement and substitute other instructional models in many contexts. However, it is very common to students to become bored or disengaged using ITS. The inclusion of gamification capabilities (e.g., level, points and so on) in ITS design aims to engage students and to drive desired learning behaviors. Researchers have been noting that teachers are increasingly demanding to act as active users of systems with such features. In this context, the main challenge of this project is contributing to the actively participation (i.e., design) of teachers in the use of gamified intelligent tutoring systems. This challenge leads to the following research questions: (i) “how could we enable teachers to customize the construction of gamified ITS in a simple way and without requiring technical capabilities from them?”; and (ii) “how could we also provide good design principles in order to aid teachers in the customization of gamified ITS?”. Thus, our aim is to develop an intelligent authoring platform to enable teachers for customizing gamified ITSs. In this way, we describe in this text a set of specific objectives that must be completed to achieve this general aim.