A TOOL FOR MANAGING DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE IN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS

Panayiotis Kyriakou, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, John Garofalakis

2008

Abstract

Domain knowledge (DK) is a basic part of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). DK usually includes information about the concepts the ITS is dealing with and the teaching material itself, which can be considered as a set of learning objects (LOs). LOs are described by a data set called learning object metadata. Concepts are usually organized in a network, called a concept network or map. Each concept is associated with a number of LOs. In this paper, we present a tool for managing both types of information in DM: creating and editing (a) a concept network and (b) learning object metadata. Additionally, the tool can produce corresponding XML descriptions for each learning object metadata. Existing tools do not offer all the above capabilities.

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Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kyriakou P., Hatzilygeroudis I. and Garofalakis J. (2008). A TOOL FOR MANAGING DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE IN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8111-53-1, pages 5-11. DOI: 10.5220/0001872100050011

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft08,
author={Panayiotis Kyriakou and Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis and John Garofalakis},
title={A TOOL FOR MANAGING DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE IN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT,},
year={2008},
pages={5-11},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001872100050011},
isbn={978-989-8111-53-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 3: ICSOFT,
TI - A TOOL FOR MANAGING DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE IN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-8111-53-1
AU - Kyriakou P.
AU - Hatzilygeroudis I.
AU - Garofalakis J.
PY - 2008
SP - 5
EP - 11
DO - 10.5220/0001872100050011