Helping Teachers Design Gamified Intelligent Tutoring Systems

摘要

Teachers are increasingly demanding to be active users of gamified intelligent tutoring systems (ITS). To effectively help teachers to use such systems, it is needed to provide simple and usable solutions for them without requiring advanced technical skills. In this work, we propose an authoring solution to help teachers in the design of gamified ITS. We evaluate our solution using a controlled experiment varying some features of the authoring proposal (template or scratch) with respect to ten metrics in the context of teachers and lecturers in Brazil. The results of this experiment allowed us to state that (i) authoring gamified ITS by using template requires much less time than from scratch; and (ii) there is no difference in the use or not of template for authoring gamified ITS with regards to the other metrics (e.g, perceived ease of use and usability, complexity, etc), but teachers have a high acceptance for all these metrics. The results found are of great importance since they might help teachers to design gamified ITS in a few minutes.