The ASSISTment builder: Supporting the life cycle of tutoring system content creation

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-166

  Razzaq, Leena ^a   Patvarczki, Jozsef ^a   Almeida, Shane F ^a   Vartak, Manasi ^a   Feng, Mingyu ^a   Heffernan, Neil T ^a   Koedinger, Kenneth R ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive and intelligent educational systems; Authoring tools; Computer uses in education; E learning tools

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE AND INTELLIGENT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; AUTHORING TOOL; AUTHORING TOOLS; COMPUTER USES IN EDUCATION; CONTENT CREATION; CONTENT-BASED; DEVELOPMENT TIME; E-LEARNING TOOLS; EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE; LARGE COMPONENTS; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE; TUTORING SYSTEM; WEB-BASED INTERFACE;

COST REDUCTION; E-LEARNING; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; INTERNET; LIFE CYCLE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; REFINING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 77749296889     PISSN: 19391382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLT.2009.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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