CPI 494 - 1001: Intelligent interactive instructional systems (class number 23006)
Graduate students please enroll in CPI 598 - 1002 (class number 26792)
Tues & Thurs 1:30-2:45; BYAC 260
Instructor information:
Spring 2009 Kurt VanLehn, kurt.vanlehn@asu.edu, http://www.public.asu.edu/~kvanlehn/
Catalog description
Intelligent interactive instructional systems serve as tutors, as learning companions or both. This course introduces their design, the technology that powers them, the learning theories that motivate them and results from experimental evaluations.
Course Objectives and Outcomes
Participants who have taken this course should have advanced understanding of Intelligent Tutoring and Learning Companion systems that includes:
Grading
Grades will be based on class participation (30%), exams (30%), and a project (40%).
Course organization
As the class progresses, we will evolve a general framework for comparing and contrasting intelligent interactive instructional systems. An initial version of the framework appears below, and will be explained in the first lecture. The framework is intended to help us understand these systems more deeply despite the appalling inconsistency and vagueness in the literature that describes them. Often, the only way to truly understand one of these systems, especially the more innovative ones, is to actually use it. Thus, each of the modules in the course is centered around a prototypical system which, if at all possible, we will download and use.
Initial Framework
· Step loop
· User interface
· Interpreting student actions
· Suggesting good actions
· Feedback and hints
· Task selection
· Assessment
· Authoring and the software development
· Evaluations
· Dissemination
Course modules (in chronological order)
To see the course schedule, with links to readings, exercises and downloads, click here.