Fifteen years of constraint-based tutors: What we have achieved and where we are going

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 39-72

  Mitrovic, Antonija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Affective modeling; Authoring; Collaborative learning; Constraint based modeling; Constraint based tutors; Metacognitive skills

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE MODEL; AUTHORING; COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; CONSTRAINT BASED TUTORS; CONSTRAINT-BASED MODELING; METACOGNITIVE SKILLS;

EID: 84858702322     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-011-9105-9     Document Type: Article

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