Human teacher in intelligent tutoring system: a forgotten entity

摘要

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have not yet proved very successful and one major reason seems to be that research on ITSs has largely failed to recognize the role of the teacher in the ITS design process. The paper discusses an ongoing project at Massey University, which is incorporating a 'Human Teacher Model' in an ITS prototype to teach Japanese. The project identifies the teacher attributes and formulates them into a coherent teacher model. They are then applied in the prototype, which offers adaptivity to the teacher at two levels: presentation based adaptivity and navigation based adaptivity. We believe this work will substantially improve the applicability of ITSs in real academic environments.