Workshop on Cognitive Tutor Development
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Cognitive Tutoring reportedly aligns student learning process to “best practices” of learning. It is particularly suitable for education delivery over the Web where the trainer and student will not have face-to-face interactions. A number of cognitive tutor authoring tools are available on the Web.
The workshop on “Hands-on introduction to creating intelligent tutoring systems without programming using the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT)” is to be conducted during the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences,
at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago and is scheduled for
June 29.
The conference will provide background on cognitive tutors and how Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT) work. Participants will get an overview of the process of CTAT development and extensive hands-on use of both basic and advanced CTAT features. These will be supplemented with illustrations and examples that provide specific insights into actual applications.
The course will prove of value to learning science researchers who will learn to create cognitive tutors even if they have no programming skill. The researchers will then be able to decide whether the tool will be of use to them.
Participants are expected to bring laptops with pre-installed CTAT software, which can be downloaded free from Carnegie Mellon.
Read more about the workshop at ICLS 2010 announcement.
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Cognitive Tutors add Intelligence to Computer Aided Instruction
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
Educational software that use Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) are numerous. However, software with the intelligence to sense and respond appropriately to the learning strategies that students use are few. Such intelligent tutors can impart not only remembered knowledge but useful procedural understanding of the domain.
In a study, students that worked with the Lisp Tutor, a cognitive tutor of the 1980-90’s, completed problems in as little as one third of the time required by students working in a programming environment without the tutor.
Developers began to use the findings of multidisciplinary cognitive science and artificial intelligence for developing cognitive tutors. Whereas earlier tutors were only half as effective as human tutors (though 2 or 3 times more effective than “unintelligent” computer aided instruction) the new range of tutors begin to outperform human tutors.
Read the history of cognitive tutors at: Cognitive Tutor Timeline
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