An Authoring System for Intelligent Procedural-Skill Tutors

  • Authors:
  • Neil C. Rowe;Thomas P. Galvin

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Successful intelligent tutoring systems provide powerful learning environments but have been hard to transfer to other instructional domains. Conventional authoring systems for tutors, on the other hand, can build a wide range of tutors, but generally do little to tailor instruction toward the student. The authors describe Mebuilder and Metutor, tools for constructing intelligent simulation-based tutors for procedural skills. Mebuilder uses object-oriented methods and automatic planning to prototype tutors quickly, and Metutor is the run-time environment for its tutors. These tools use planning methods, consistency enforcement, objects, and structured menus to make tutor development easier than with conventional authoring software.