Tom Murray
Adjunct Faculty, University of Massachusetts
Visiting Faculty, Hampshire College
tmurray@cs.umass.edu
www.cs.umass.edu/~tmurray/

Workshop Title:
From Story Boards to Knowledge Bases: Steps toward making instructional software more generative, adaptive, and intelligent

Time: 9.30 am Ð 12.30

Outline
Research and development in intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) over last two decades has produced a number of methods for modeling, in a limited sense, several kinds of intelligent behavior that human teachers and tutors bring to their work. ITSs include primitive models of several types of expertise, including problem solving expertise, curriculum and pedagogical expertise, and tutoring/teaching strategies. Though most ITSs are complex systems that are difficult to design and build, some of their features can be applied in smaller scale and practical ways. This workshop will focus on how to use some of the lessons learned in ITS development to make more traditional instructional software, educational web sites, and learning environments incrementally more generative, adaptive, or "intelligent." We will focus in part on current research in authoring tools for ITSs and adaptive hypermedia. The workshop will combine presentations with small group brainstorming sessions in which the participants will consider how to add intelligence to some of their current multimedia or web-based educational software projects.

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