Support Cognitive Processes in Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Computer based learning with Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) has become a meaningful supplement to traditional lectures at school and at universities. A highly flexible and adaptive tutoring process model is required as a central component of ITS to adequately support cognitive processes of the learner, e.g. the process of knowledge application and the process of diagnostic reasoning. Whereas most of the ITS focus only the second aspect, the tutoring process model provides facilities to support both processes. It continuously and dynamically adapts the training case’s contents and the available set of actions to a learner model and to the training case’s development.