Towards a Domain-Independent ITS Middleware Architecture

Building an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) from scratch usually requires technological skills, expertise about the domain and tasks, and pedagogical knowledge. We propose a middleware which facilitates the construction of intelligently supported learning systems independently from the underlying (formalized) domain knowledge using typical re-usable components of ITSs, exchangeable plug-ins, and machine learning techniques running in Matlab. We proved our concept using a web-based programming environment as an example of an user interface component interacting with our ITS middleware.