A goal of IT education is to enable students to acquire the ability of using information in order to live in a modern information-oriented society. Such meta-ability cannot be learned in the traditional Japanese instructional way of knowledge being transmitted by teachers. When a teacher designs a lesson plan for IT education, it is necessary to include not only the target goal of the unit but ...

This paper investigates the use of computational intelligence for adaptive lesson generation in a distance learning environment. A method for adaptive pedagogical hypermedia document generation is proposed and implemented in a prototype called KnowledgeClass. This method is based on specialized connectionist architecture. The domain model is represented in a connectionist-based system which pro...