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A Rule-Based Expert System Approach to Academic Advising.
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Patankar, Manoj – Innovations in Education and Training International, 1998
Discusses the development and evaluation of the Academic Counselling Expert (ACE) system designed to replace the faculty advisor and provide requisite advice to aviation students at San Jose State University (California). This computer-based counselling system was accessed by 65 students (Spring 1996 semester); most students acquired appropriate…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Aviation Education, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education
Electronic Homework.
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Lee, Fong-Lok; Heyworth, Rex M. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2000
Outlines conditions that should be present in an electronic tutoring system, and describes the Electronic Homework system. Discusses the modules contained in the system's two main components--the Computer Tutor and Homework Administrator. Gives an example of the tutoring process, and examines the overall effects of using Electronic Homework. (AEF)
Descriptors: Assignments, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education
Agent Technologies in the Electronic Classroom: Some Pedagogical Issues.
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Dowling, Carolyn – 2002
The use of intelligent software agents within computer mediated learning environments has become an important focus of research and development in both AI and educational contexts. Some of the roles envisaged and implemented for these electronic entities involve direct interactions with students, participating in the "social" dimension of the…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software
Artificial Tutoring Systems: What Computers Can and Can't Know.
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Frick, Theodore W. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1997
Maccia's epistemology of intelligent natural systems implies that computer systems must develop qualitative intelligence before knowledge representation and natural language understanding can be achieved. Emotion and sensation--capabilities which computers do not currently possess are vital to the growth of the mind (Stanley I. Greenspan).…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education
Modelling Teaching Strategies.
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Major, Nigel – Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 1995
Describes a modelling language for representing teaching strategies, based in the context of the COCA intelligent tutoring system. Examines work on meta-reasoning in knowledge-based systems and describes COCA's architecture, giving details of the language used for representing teaching knowledge. Discusses implications for future work. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Strategies
Multiple Intelligent Mentors Instructing Collaboratively (MIMIC): Developing a Theoretical Framework.
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Baylor, Amy – 1999
This paper describes preliminary work on "Multiple Intelligent Mentors Instructing Collaboratively" (MIMIC), an intelligent Web-based agent environment for learning instructional design. The focus is on developing theoretical foundations of instructional design and instructional theory that form the foundation for systems development. In the…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education