Title: MONAP - Technology for ITS design

When: Monday, March 1, 2004 12:00 noon

Where: IS 2nd Floor Conference Hall

Who: Sergey Sosnovsky

Abstract: The main advantage of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) is the adaptive control of teaching/learning process. However the requirements to the knowledge base structure and system architecture make the design of ITS very time-consuming. Traditional authoring languages and tools partially solve this problem. However some weakly formalized domains still require the developer of ITS to create domain-dependent components for problem generation, solving and student's answer checking.

In this talk, I am going to present some results of the research project MONAP-II, made in the ITS laboratory at the Kazan State Technological University. One of the goals of this project was to create the authoring tools for ITS design providing the alternative for domain-dependent components creation. Also MONAP-II includes the learning process simulation subsystem, which helps an author to tune the model parameters.

Speaker Bio: Sergey Sosnovsky is a 2nd year PhD student in the Information Science program of the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. He got his MS degree in Automated Systems for Information Processing and Control from Kazan State Technological University (Topic: "Development of Components of Authoring Tools for Intelligent Tutoring System Design".). Sergey's current research interests are in the area of web-based technologies for education.