Objective
The major objective of MATIC is to draw up formal specifications for multipurpose software tools for courseware authors, as a major part of the Portable Educational Tools Environment (PETE). These tools are intended to support both conventional multi-media computer-based training (incorporating any combination of text, graphics, sound and video) and intelligent computer-aided instruction (ICAI), or intelligent tutoring systems (ITS).
An author centred conceptual model has been developed for use in the production of an intelligent tutoring system. Prototypes have been produced in order to assess the use of practical knowledge based techniques to support an author.
A prototype was made available on 26/10/92
The specifications will be for a suite of software tools to allow one or more authors to produce multi-media courseware that can respond intelligently to different students, as well as incorporating both domain knowledge and didactic knowledge. The tools will themselves be intelligent, in that they can advise the author/s on the best choice of strategies for teaching, representing the knowledge to be taught, and modelling the individual student, as well as automating as much as possible of the processes of implementing these choices.
The specifications will be for fully modular software with an open architecture that allows new didactic strategies, domain modelling and learner modelling technologies to be incorporated as these are developed (through DELTA and elsewhere), as well as developments in multi-media production and networking. The formal specifications will be fully portable, in the sense that they are not aimed at any particular hardware and can be adapted for small or large systems (and to produce courseware for small or large systems). The text components of the authoring and learner interface will be specified as one module that can be implemented separately for the different European languages, though the authoring environment will be graphical rather than dialogue-based. What is more, the tools will allow the building of a domain model in two parts: a reusable core concept model, and multimedia attachments to the concept model that can easily be retailored in another European language.
Above all, the design is aimed at a system to give authors maximum control over strategy, content and appearance of the finished courseware and over the authoring environment, while also giving the author intelligent assistance to produce intelligent courseware with the minimum of labour and no specialised AI knowledge.
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MK43 0AJ Cranfield
United Kingdom