Project Proposal by Martin Stacey
Intelligent Tutoring Systems:
Broken dream or wasted opportunity?
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Software |
None |
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Covers |
HCI, psychology, AI |
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Skills Required |
Interest in HCI, interest in AI, ideally interest in teaching |
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Challenge |
Conceptual Technical Programming |
Brief Description
In the 1980s Intelligent Tutoring Systems were an exciting area of artificial intelligence research. But the expectations the AI researchers had then that ITSs would be in widespread use to supplement or occasionally replace human teachers have not been met. The use of computers to teach seems depressingly unimaginative. Why is this?
Your challenge is to investigate the state of ITS technology, its successes and failures, and the social, economic and technological factors governing its development and deployment for actual learners to use. What would be needed for this branch to AI to start delivering major benefits to learners and educational institutions in the future?
Variants
You might like to focus on Intelligent Tutoring Systems and other Computer Aided Learning technology for learning particular types of knowledge and skills: Obvious candidates are mathematics, programming, and foreign languages.
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