Authoring constraint-based tutors in ASPIRE

Assoc. Professor Antonija Mitrovic

Dept. of CSSE, University of Canterbury

Fri Aug 11 15:10:00 NZST 2006 in Room 031, MSCS

Abstract

Constraint-based tutoring systems developed by the Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group effectively support student learning. After developing a number of tutoring systems, we are now developing ASPIRE, a complete authoring and deployment environment for such tutors. ASPIRE consists of the authoring server (ASPIRE-Author), which enables domain experts to easily develop new constraint-based tutors, and a tutoring server (ASPIRE-Tutor), which deploys the developed systems. ASPIRE is currently undergoing evaluation, and will be available freely on the Web to teachers who want to develop tutoring systems for their courses.