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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5260)
Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminaries
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Conclusions
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Back Matter
About this book
Automatic course generation is a very important area of research with numerous practical applications in e-learning. It has been studied since the 1980s within the fields of intelligent tutoring, AI and education, adaptive hypermedia and web-based educational systems. Many approaches have been proposed, but hardly any have resulted in generic and practically applied systems. A number of problems have remained unresolved. These problems are addressed by this work.
This book focuses on course generation based on Hierarchical Task Network planning (HTN planning). This course generation framework enables the formalization and application of complex and realistic pedagogical knowledge. The volume describes basic techniques for course generation, which are used to formalize seven different types of courses (for instance, introducing the learner to previously unknown concepts and supporting the learner during rehearsal) and several elementary learning goals (e.g., selecting an appropriate example or exercise). This framework has been implemented and evaluated with good results in several domains, with users from different countries and universities, in the context of an EU project.
Course generation based on HTN planning is implemented in PAIGOS and has been evaluated by technical, formative and summative evaluations.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Ullrich describes the PAIGOS tutoring system and its evaluation. He refers to it as a course generation system because it generates a ‘personal book’ for the learner, based on the learner’s profile. PAIGOS is built on many recent innovations, including educational resources reachable through the WWW, the ActiveMath environment … . The methodology of PAIGOS … is flexible enough for instructional materials to be built according to any teaching approach. … PAIGOS is also evaluated … to generate courses for subjects other than mathematics." (D. L. Chester, ACM Computing Reviews, February, 2009)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Computer Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Carsten Ullrich
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pedagogically Founded Courseware Generation for Web-Based Learning
Book Subtitle: An HTN-Planning-Based Approach Implemented in Paigos
Authors: Carsten Ullrich
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88215-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-88213-8Published: 29 September 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-88215-2Published: 26 September 2008
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 257
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computers and Education, Learning & Instruction, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)