Shikshak: An Intelligent Tutoring System Authoring tool for rural education

Author

Chakraborty, Sunandan ; Bhattacharya, Tamali ; Bhowmick, Plaban K. ; Basu, Anupam ; Sarkar, Sudeshna

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur

fYear

2007

fDate

15-16 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Low literacy scenario in India and other developing nation demands an alternative learning environment to deal with the problem. Lack of trained teachers, high dropout rates are some of the major problems that need to be addressed. Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) or ITS Authoring tools (ITSAT) can be thought of as a possible solution to these problems. In this paper we present Shikshak, an ITSAT developed by us and discuss its deployment in the district of Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal along with its sample effect on primary education.

Keywords

intelligent tutoring systems; intelligent tutoring system; primary education; rural education; trained teacher; Asia; Collaboration; Communications technology; Computer science; Computer science education; Context; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Intelligent systems; Robustness; Adaptive Tutoring; Educational Technology; Intelligent Tutoring Systems; Student Modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2007. ICTD 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1990-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1991-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937410

Filename

4937410