An adaptive and innovative question-driven competition-based intelligent tutoring system for learning

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 6932-6948

  Muñoz Merino, Pedro J ^a   Fernández Molina, Manuel ^a   Muñoz Organero, Mario ^a   Delgado Kloos, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Competition; Education; Intelligent tutoring system; Software tool

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL AREA; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; ITS ARCHITECTURE; LEARNING PROCESS; SOFTWARE TOOL; VISUALIZATION OF INFORMATION;

COMPETITION; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84857643653     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.020     Document Type: Article

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