Human teacher in intelligent tutoring system: a forgotten entity

Author

Kinshuk ; Tretiakov, Alexei ; Hong, Hong ; Patel, Ashok

Author_Institution

Massey Univ., Palmerston North, New Zealand

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

227

Lastpage

230

Abstract

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have not yet proved very successful and one major reason seems to be that research on ITSs has largely failed to recognize the role of the teacher in the ITS design process. The paper discusses an ongoing project at Massey University, which is incorporating a `Human Teacher Model´ in an ITS prototype to teach Japanese. The project identifies the teacher attributes and formulates them into a coherent teacher model. They are then applied in the prototype, which offers adaptivity to the teacher at two levels: presentation based adaptivity and navigation based adaptivity. We believe this work will substantially improve the applicability of ITSs in real academic environments

Keywords

human factors; intelligent tutoring systems; linguistics; natural languages; teaching; user modelling; Human Teacher Model; ITS design process; ITS prototype; Japanese education; coherent teacher model; intelligent tutoring systems; navigation based adaptivity; presentation based adaptivity; real academic environments; teacher; teacher attributes; Application software; Expert systems; Human computer interaction; Intelligent systems; Internet; Knowledge acquisition; Navigation; Process design; Prototypes; Psychology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Madison, WI

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1013-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2001.943907

Filename

943907