Peer-Based intelligent tutoring systems: a corpus-oriented approach

  • Authors:
  • John Champaign

  • Affiliations:
  • David R Cheriton, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

  • Venue:
  • AI'10 Proceedings of the 23rd Canadian conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Our work takes as a starting point McCalla's proposed ecological approach for the design of peer-based intelligent tutoring systems and proposes three distinct directions for research The first is to develop an algorithm for selecting appropriate content (learning objects) to present to a student, based on previous learning experiences of like-minded students The second is to build on this research by also having students leaving explicit annotations on learning objects to convey refinements of their understanding to subsequent students; the challenge is to intelligently match students to those annotations that will be most beneficial for their tutoring The third is to develop methods for intelligently extracting learning objects from a repository of knowledge, in a manner that may be customized to the needs of specific students In order to develop our research we are exploring the specific application of assisting health care workers via peer-based intelligent tutoring.