Abstract
An open learner model for trainee pilots
Highlights
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) offer individualised learning assistance
There are very many questions remaining to be investigated, relating to a broad range of issues including learning gains, learner model presentation preferences, what students use open learner models (OLMs) for, what information they attend to, how OLMs may support collaborative interaction, why some students do not access their OLM, use of OLMs over time, use of OLMs in different courses and the utility of OLMs for different types of user. (See Bull, Dimitrova, and McCalla (2007) for further discussion of research questions.) Using the ‘Flight Club’ OLM, this paper considers just some of the early questions
We investigate whether previous work on the use of simple OLMs is relevant to motivated, independent learners – i.e. we aim to find out whether this type of OLM approach might be of benefit to the kind of learners who have a high drive to succeed, and who may already have successful learning strategies in place
Summary
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) offer individualised learning assistance. For example, such assistance may include providing exercises of appropriate difficulty and content, and selecting suitable learning material according to the learner’s current learning needs.Traditionally an ITS contains three models. Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) offer individualised learning assistance. Such assistance may include providing exercises of appropriate difficulty and content, and selecting suitable learning material according to the learner’s current learning needs. The domain model allows the system to generate and understand the content it is teaching, and evaluate the accuracy of the user’s input. Teaching strategies allow an ITS to individualise its teaching: the system interprets the user’s knowledge from their learner model, comparing this to the domain model, and makes a variety of teaching or guidance decisions such as choice of topic, level of detail of information or explanations to present, method of presentation of information or explanations and generation or selection of appropriate exercises. ITSs are being developed for a range of domains, from mathematics (Melis, Haywood, and Smith 2006) to astronaut training (Dubois, Nkambou, and Hohmeyer 2006) to music (Lahart 2005)
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