| The Assistment Builder: A Rapid Development Tool for IT (2009) | |||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
Abstract | |||||||||||||
| Adaptive and intelligent Web-based educational systems (AIWBES) provide an alternative to the traditional “just-put-it-on-the-Web ” approach in the development of Web-based educational. AIWBES attempt to be more adaptive by building a model of the goals, preferences and knowledge of each individual student and using this model throughout the interaction with the student in order to adapt to the needs of that student. They also attempt to be more intelligent by incorporating and performing some activities traditionally executed by a human teacher- such as coaching students or diagnosing their misconceptions. Since the first pioneer AIWBES developed in 1995-1996, many interesting systems have been developed and reported. An interest to provide distance education over the Web has been a strong driving force behind these research efforts. A good help for the research community was provided by a sequence of workshops that get together researchers working on AIWBES, let them learn from each other, and advocate the ideas of this research direction via on-line workshop proceedings (Brusilovsky, Henze & Millán, 2002; Brusilovsky, Nakabayashi & Ritter, 1997; Peylo, 2000; Stern, Woolf & Murray, 1998). A number of interesting AIWBES that were reported on some early stages of their development at these workshops have since achieved the level of maturity. | |||||||||||||
Publication details | |||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||