Does intelligent tutoring have future!

Decades of intelligent tutoring systems research has only produced hopes and potential prototypes; in reality, such systems have failed to prove their usefulness in wider academic environment. There seems to be a gap between the delivered research output and the needs of actual educational process. This discussion recommends that a paradigm shift is required in the research and design process of intelligent tutoring systems to involve implementing teachers, and to design these systems as tools for teachers rather than as replacements.