The beginning of a beautiful friendship?: Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs

Vincent Aleven; Jonathan Sewall; Octav Popescu; Franceska Xhakaj; Dhruv Chand; Ryan Baker; Yuan Wang; George Siemens; Carolyn Penstein Rose; Dragan Gasevic

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_53

The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs

Vincent Aleven, Jonathan Sewall, Octav Popescu, Franceska Xhakaj, Dhruv Chand, Ryan Baker, Yuan Wang, George Siemens, Carolyn Penstein Rose, Dragan Gasevic

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A key challenge in ITS research and development is to support tutoring at scale, for example by embedding tutors in MOOCs. An obstacle to at-scale deployment is that ITS architectures tend to be complex, not easily deployed in browsers without significant server-side processing, and not easily embedded in a learning management system (LMS). We present a case study in which a widely used ITS authoring tool suite, CTAT/TutorShop, was modified so that tutors can be embedded in MOOCs. Specifically, the inner loop (the example-tracing tutor engine) was moved to the client by reimplementing it in JavaScript, and the tutors were made compatible with the LTI e-learning standard. The feasibility of this general approach to ITS/MOOC integration was demonstrated with simple tutors in an edX MOOC “Data Analytics and Learning.”

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Artificial Intelligence in Education
Subtitle of host publication	17th International Conference, AIED 2015, Madrid, Spain, June 22-26, 2015. Proceedings
Editors	C Conati, N Heffernan, A Mitrovic, MF Verdejo
Publisher	Springer
Pages	525-528
Volume	9112
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-19773-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-19772-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_53
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems
MOOCs
ITS authoring tools
learning at scale
ITS architectures

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Aleven, V., Sewall, J., Popescu, O., Xhakaj, F., Chand, D., Baker, R., Wang, Y., Siemens, G., Rose, C. P., & Gasevic, D. (2015). The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs. In C. Conati, N. Heffernan, A. Mitrovic, & MF. Verdejo (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: 17th International Conference, AIED 2015, Madrid, Spain, June 22-26, 2015. Proceedings (Vol. 9112, pp. 525-528). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_53

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Aleven, V, Sewall, J, Popescu, O, Xhakaj, F, Chand, D, Baker, R, Wang, Y, Siemens, G, Rose, CP & Gasevic, D 2015, The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs. in C Conati, N Heffernan, A Mitrovic & MF Verdejo (eds), Artificial Intelligence in Education: 17th International Conference, AIED 2015, Madrid, Spain, June 22-26, 2015. Proceedings. vol. 9112, Springer, pp. 525-528. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_53

The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs. / Aleven, Vincent; Sewall, Jonathan; Popescu, Octav et al.
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Aleven V, Sewall J, Popescu O, Xhakaj F, Chand D, Baker R et al. The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs. In Conati C, Heffernan N, Mitrovic A, Verdejo MF, editors, Artificial Intelligence in Education: 17th International Conference, AIED 2015, Madrid, Spain, June 22-26, 2015. Proceedings. Vol. 9112. Springer. 2015. p. 525-528 doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_53

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