Intelligent Tutoring Supported Collaborative Learning (ITSCL): A Hybrid Framework

Abstract

Recently Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) and Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) have got much attention in the field of computer science, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and educational technologies. An ITS is a technologically intelligent system that provides an adaptive learning paradigm for an individual learner only, while CSCL is also a technology-driven learning paradigm that supports groups of learners in pertaining knowledge by collaboration. In a multidisciplinary research field—the Learning Sciences, both individual and collaborative learning have their own significance. This research aims to extend ITS for collaborative constructivist view of learning using CSCL. Integrating both design architecture of CSCL and ITS, this research model propose a new conceptual framework underpinning “Intelligent Tutoring Supported Collaborative Learning (ITSCL)”. ITSCL extend ITS by supporting multiple learners interacting system. ITSCL support three different types of interaction levels. The first level of interaction supports individual learning by learner-tutor interaction. The second and third level of interaction support collaborative learning, by learner-learner interaction and tutor-group of collaborative learners’ interactions, respectively. To evaluate ITSCL, a prototype model was implemented to conduct few experiments. The statistical results extrapolate the learning gains, measured from Paired T-Test and frequency analysis, contend a significant learning gain and improvement in the learning process with enhanced learning performance.