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ITS, The End of the World as We Know It: Transitioning AIED into a Service-Oriented Ecosystem

Year: 2016

Type: article

Abstract: Advanced learning technologies are reaching a new phase of their evolution where they are finally entering mainstream educational contexts, with persistent user bases. However, as AIED scales, it will need to follow recent trends in service-oriented and ubiquitous computing: breaking AIED platforms into distinct services that can be composed for different platforms (web, mobile, etc.) and distributed across multiple systems. This will represent a move from learning platforms to an ecosystem of interacting learning tools. Such tools will enable new opportunities for both user-adaptation and experimentation. Traditional macro-adaptation (problem selection) and step-based adaptation (hints and feedback) will be extended by meta-adaptation (adaptive system selection) and micro-adaptation (event-level optimization). The existence of persistent and widely-used systems will also support new paradigms for experimentation in education, allowing researchers to understand interactions and boundary conditions for learning principles. New central research questions for the field will also need to be answered due to these changes in the AIED landscape.

Source: International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education

DOI: 10.1007/s40593-016-0098-8

Author: Benjamin D. Nye

Institutions: University of Southern California, USC Institute for Creative Technologies

Language: English

Topic: Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,190