TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Introduction

CHAPTER 1: INTELLIGENT TUTORING

Traditional Computer Aided Learning Systems

Intelligent Tutoring System Architectures

The expert module

If - Then Rules

If - Then Rules with uncertainty measures

Semantic Network representations

Frame based representations

The student diagnosis module

Student model architectures

Overlay student models

Differential student models

Perturbation student models

Student model diagnosis

Performance measuring

Model tracing

Issue tracing

Expert systems

The curriculum and diagnosis module

Examples

GUIDON

WEST

LISP TUTOR

BUGGY

Recent developments and Summary

 

CHAPTER 2: HYPERTEXT AND ADAPTIVE HYPERTEXT

Hypertext

The development of hypertext

Architecture and structure of hypertext

Advanteges of hypertext

Problems with hypertext

Hypertext adaptation

Navigational adaptation

Navigational adaptation techniques

Presentational adaptation

User modelling and Adaptive Hypertext

Adaptive hypertext systems

ISIS-TUTOR

ANATOM-TUTOR

KN-AHS

HYPERFLEX

Summary of reviewed adaptive hypertext systems

 

CHAPTER 3: MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES

Machine Learning

Rote Learning

Induction

The focusing algorithm

The application of focusing in Intelligent Tutoring

Problems with focusing

Concept Learning and Decision Trees

The Classification algorithm

The ID3 algorithm

The application of ID3 in Intelligent Tutoring

ID4 algorithm

ID5 and ID5R algorithms

Explanation based learning methods

The application of EBL in Intelligent Tutoring

Clustering

Statistical Clustering

Conceptual Clustering

Kohonen Net Clustering

Analogy

Transformational analogy

Derivational analogy



Authored by Serengul Smith

E-mail to:serengul1@mdx.ac.uk

School of Computing Science Middlesex University
Revised: September 1998