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INTELLIGENT  TUTORING  SYSTEMS  BOOK

If you are thinking of adopting the Intelligent Tutors book for your class, you can receive a preview copy, see below. This single author text describes tools, methods and theories for building intelligent tutors.                                         

 

BUILDING INTELLIGENT INTERACTIVE TUTORS

By

Beverly Park Woolf

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA 

Description

The book shows how to build systems that assess a student's knowledge and are adaptive to each student's learning needs. It describes cognitive science, multimedia, learning technology, adaptive tutors, intelligent information systems and user modeling.  Dr. Woolf taps into 20 years of research on intelligent tutors to bring designers and developers a broad range of issues and methods. The book describes multidisciplinary approaches to using computers for teaching, reports on research, development, and real-world experiences, and discusses web-based learning systems.

Audience 

Professionals, graduate students, and others in computer science and educational technology who develop online tutoring systems to support e-learning.

Contents 

Part I: Introduction To Artificial Intelligence and Education   

Part II: Representation, Reasoning and Assessment

Part III: Technologies and Environments 

Bibliographic & Ordering Information 

Paperback, 480 pages, publication date: SEP-2008, Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN

ISBN-13: 978-0-12-373594-2;  ISBN-10: 0-12-373594-7

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Price:  USD 69.95,   GBP 39.99,   EUR 57.95 

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