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BUILDING INTELLIGENT INTERACTIVE TUTORS
Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors
Student-centered strategies for revolutionizing e-learning
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By
Beverly Woolf, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Description
Computers have transformed every facet of our culture, most dramatically communication, transportation, finance, science, and the economy. Yet their impact has not been generally felt in education due to lack of hardware, teacher training, and sophisticated software. Another reason is that current instructional software is neither truly responsive to student needs nor flexible enough to emulate teaching. The more instructional software can reason about its own teaching process, know what it is teaching, and which method to use for teaching, the greater is its impact on education. Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors discusses educational systems that assess a student's knowledge and are adaptive to a student's learning needs. Dr. Woolf taps into 20 years of research on intelligent tutors to bring designers and developers a broad range of issues and methods that produce the best intelligent learning environments possible, whether for classroom or life-long learning. The book describes multidisciplinary approaches to using computers for teaching, reports on research, development, and real-world experiences, and discusses intelligent tutors, web-based learning systems, adaptive learning systems, intelligent agents and intelligent multimedia.

Audience
Professionals, graduate students, and others in computer science and educational technology who are developing online tutoring systems to support elearning, and who want to build intelligence into the system.

Contents


PART I: INTRODUCTION TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EDUCATION
1. Introduction 2. Features

PART II: REPRESENTATION, REASONING AND ASSESSMENT
3. Student Knowledge 4. Tutoring Knowledge 5. Communication Knowledge 6. Evaluation of Tutors

PART III: TECHNOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTS
7. Machine Learning 8. Inquiry and Collaboration Tutors 9. Web-based Tutors 10. Future view

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 480 pages, publication date: AUG-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-373594-2
ISBN-10: 0-12-373594-7
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN

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