[ifets] Re: from R. Lelouche - What is an ITS?

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John Eklund (j.eklund@uts.edu.au)
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:36:18 +0500 

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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 18:36:18 +0500
From: j.eklund@uts.edu.au (John Eklund)
Subject: [ifets] Re: from R. Lelouche - What is an ITS?

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>What is important is that the system exhibits:
>- a good "expertise" of the learning domain,
>- and a capability of good explanations in that domain,
> in particular a capability to answer students' questions.
>
>Would you agree (especially the moderators) that these two characteristics
>could define an ITS answering Vilnis Vulfs's question for the forum's
>purposes?

Well... no, I wouldn't agree. An ITS, to be so called, needs to have:

1. A domain model - A means of representing domain knowledge

2. A student model - A way of recording information about individual
student progress in that domain. It's usually an overlay of 1.

3. A tutoring strategy, which utilises 1 & 2 to individualise instruction

4. And, importantly, use an 'intelligent technology' such as an expert
system, which is why we don't use the term 'intelligent' when talking about
adaptive systems.

Hope that helps..

JoHn

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