Intelligent Tutoring

The resources below explore intelligent tutoring, which is computer software designed to simulate a human tutor’s behavior and guidance and can assist students by posing questions, parsing responses, and offering customized instruction and feedback. This kind of system can alter its support in real time, following differences in individual student strategies or adjusting its knowledge base for more effective interaction with all students.

Intelligent Tutoring System for Student Projects

2013

This journal article highlights the use of a web-based intelligent tutoring system to provide advice in structuring student research projects. Empirical evaluation indicates that students found this tool useful and that it improved their writing.

EDUCAUSE Intelligent Tutoring Resources

2014

This EDUCAUSE resource library search yields a list of intelligent tutoring resources including podcasts, cases, and articles on the subject. 

International Journal of Computer Science Issues

2013

This paper outlines the typical architecture and developmental history of intelligent tutoring systems and describes past and present systems, concluding with focus areas for future research. It includes a critical analysis of the theme behind the systems, their purpose, and the key concepts. 

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: An Overview

2012

A collaborative, international project team presents an overview of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) literature: history and challenges of ITSs; cognitive models of ITSs; data mining in education; user profiling in ITS; and the role of instructional design and learning design in ITSs. 

Intelligent Tutoring for Lifelong Learning Resources

2012

A literature review—developed by the i-TUTOR consortium—of the web resources on artificial intelligence in education and the implications of using intelligent tutoring systems. 

Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics

2013

This article reviews the potential of analytics and data mining and their application to intelligent tutoring systems. It also provides an extensive resource list on where to learn more on the subject. 

Personalized Learning Using Continuously Adaptive Technology

2013

This video describes how personalized learning (with the support of intelligent tutoring) at ASU uses a continuously adaptive, technology-based system in which course content is delivered to students according to their pace of learning, resulting in dramatic improvement in student performance in developmental math.

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