RAPIDS: A Simulation-Based Instructional Authoring System for Technical Training

摘要

There are very few applications of intelligent tutoring systems in use today thatwere developed outside of the research environment. The existing systems demonstrate very promising instructional power, but were typically developed at extremely high cost by unusually talented researchers and programmers. Instructional developers with those skills are not generally available in the training community. The research described in this report was undertaken to allow a larger user community to employ the Intelligent Maintenance Training System (IMTS) simulation authoring and simulation execution resources. Users should be able to produce highly tailored instructional systems much more rapidly, employing available subject-matter expertise. The resulting system is intended to address both research requirements and operational training requirements. It is to serve as a tool for studying the effectiveness of competing approaches to training, as well as providing a set of tools for the production of simulation-based courses.