The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs
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2015
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Aleven, V.
Sewall, J.
Popescu, O.
Xhakaj, F.
Chand, D.
Baker, R.
Wang, Y.
Siemens, G.
Rosé, C.
Gasevic, D.
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Conati, C.
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2015 / Conati, C. (ed./s), vol.9112, pp.525-528
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17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) (22 Jun 2015 - 26 Jun 2015 : Madrid, Spain)
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A key challenge in ITS research and development is to support tutoring at scale, for example by embedding tutors in MOOCs. An obstacle to at-scale deployment is that ITS architectures tend to be complex, not easily deployed in browsers without significant server-side processing, and not easily embedded in a learning management system (LMS). We present a case study in which a widely used ITS authoring tool suite, CTAT/TutorShop, was modified so that tutors can be embedded in MOOCs. Specifically, the inner loop (the example-tracing tutor engine) was moved to the client by reimplementing it in JavaScript, and the tutors were made compatible with the LTI e-learning standard. The feasibility of this general approach to ITS/MOOC integration was demonstrated with simple tutors in an edX MOOC “Data Analytics and Learning.”
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Copyright 2015 Springer