Ontological support in modeling learners' problem solving process

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 64-74

  Lu, Chun Hung ^a,b   Wu, Chia Wei ^b   Wu, Shih Hung ^c   Chiou, Guey Fa ^a   Hsu, Wen Lian ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS); Ontology; Procedural Knowledge; Student Model

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844545824     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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