An Intelligent Tutoring System for Case-Based E-Learning on Project Management

A survey says that the success rate of information system development project is about 30%. In order to lead a project to a successful one, many companies performed several kinds of education methods to educate more excellent project managers. One of the education methods is the case-based learning that a learner thinks problems and solutions on the practical case. The tutor that provides advice on how to think about the case plays an important role in the case-based learning. However, tutors are fewer than learners. In order to make the case-based learning available online without the tutor, we propose an intelligent tutoring system for case-based e-Learning on project management. A tutor agent instead of a human tutor provides appropriate advice according to a learner´s input to the system. The proposed method compares the learner´s input to the answers that the human tutor preliminary decides in order to verify the learner´s input. A tutor agent chooses the advice corresponding to the content of the input from an advice list. The system repeats to provide advice to the learner until the learner finishes thinking about sufficient solutions.