(314) TEACHERS AS DESIGNERS OF LEARNING: A CLARION CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION

摘要

Solving a multitude of today's global challenges takes needs rapid advances in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Humanities, and Mathematics (STEAM) disciplines. The world is looking for ever more scientists and engineers skilled at their profession. In reality, however, due to perceived difficulty of these subjects and frustrations in learning the contents, many potential future professionals, who are students today, are driven away from these fields. To alleviate this problem, personalized tutoring with computer based tutors is a viable solution. Until a few years ago, making a personalized, computer based intelligent tutoring system constituted hundreds of hours of intense work from computer programmers and it was an expensive endeavor. The recent introduction of freely available (for educational purposes) software called Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT) has enabled every teacher - who is not a computer programmer - build his/her own tutors.