Authoring constraint-based tutors in ASPIRE: a case study of a capital investment tutor

Mitrovic, T; McGuigan, N; Martin, B; Suraweera, P; Milik, N; Holland, J

Publication

Authoring constraint-based tutors in ASPIRE: a case study of a capital investment tutor

Authors

Mitrovic, T, McGuigan, N, Martin, B, Suraweera, P, Milik, N, Holland, J

Date

2008

Type

Conference Contribution - published

Collections

Department of Informatics and Enabling Technologies

Keywords

intelligent tutoring systems, ASPIRE, capital investment tutor, authoring and deployment environment

Abstract

Although intelligent tutoring systems have proven their effectiveness, they are still not widely spread due to the high development costs. We present ASPIRE, a complete authoring and deployment environment for constraint-based intelligent tutoring systems. ASPIRE consists of the authoring server (ASPIRE-Author), which enables domain experts (i.e. teachers) to easily develop new ITSs for their courses, and a tutoring server (ASPIRE-Tutor), which deploys the developed systems. We describe the authoring process supported by ASPIRE, and illustrate it on the example of an ITS that teaches Capital Investment decision making to university students.