Applications-Oriented AI Research: Education

摘要

Those of us involved in the creation of Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, both writers and editors, have attempted to make the concepts, methods, tools, and main results of artificial intelligence research accessible to a broad scientific and engineering audience. Currently, AI work is familiar mainly to its practicing specialists and other interested computer scientists. Yet the field is of growing interdisciplinary interest and practical importance. With this book we are trying to build bridges that are easily crossed by engineers, scientists in other fields, and our own computer science colleagues. This report contains the section of the Handbook on educational applications research. The goal of CAI research is to construct instructional programs that incorporate well-prepared course material in lessons that are optimized for each student. Early programs were either electronic 'page-turners' which printed prepared text or drill-and-practice monitors, which printed problems and responded to the student's solutions using prestored answers and remedial comments. In the Intelligent CAI(ICAI) programs of the 1970s, course material is represented independently of teaching procedures so that problems and remedial comments can be generated differently for each student. Research today focuses on the design of programs that can offer instruction in a manner that is sensitive to the student's strengths weakenesses, and preferred style of learning. The role of AI in computer-based instruction applications is seen as making possible a new kind of learining environment.