Overview

This edited text gives a comprehensive picture of the state-of-the-art in authoring systems and authoring tools for advanced technology instructional systems. Issues of authoring, cost-effectiveness, interoperability and re-usability have been at the forefront in recent years in educational software in general and in the field of advanced, adaptive and intelligent educational software more specifically. The book includes descriptions of 15 systems and research projects from almost every significant effort in the field of advanced technology authoring systems. Included is a chapter comprising of an extensive overview of the field, summarizing the work of dozens of systems and projects and providing an analytical framework for comparing them. The book should appeal to researchers, teachers and advanced students working in the following areas: education, instructional technology and computer-based education, psychology, cognitive science and computer science.

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Author:   T. Murray ,  S. Blessing ,  S. Ainsworth
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2003 ed.
Weight:   1.171kg
ISBN:  

9781402017728

ISBN 10:   1402017723
Pages:   557
Publication Date:   31 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section I: Authoring Tutors for Device and Process Simulations.- 1. SIMQUEST: Authoring Educational Simulations.- 2. Requiem for a Development System: Reflections on Knowledge-Based, Generative Instruction.- 3. Authoring Simulation-Centered Learning Environments with Rides and Vivids.- Section II: Authoring Tutors that Encode Human Expertise.- 4. A Programming by Demonstration Authoring Tool for Model-Tracing Tutors.- 5. Automated Knowledge Acquisition for Intelligent Support of Diagnostic Reasoning.- 6. Formative Evaluation of an Automated Knowledge Elicitation and Organization Tool.- 7. Using Knowledge Objects to Design Instructional Learning Environments.- Section III: Authoring Tutors that Include Instructional Strategies.- 8. REDEEM: Simple Intelligent Tutoring Systems from Usable Tools.- 9. The IRIS Authoring Tool.- 10. CREAM-Tools: An Authoring Environment for Knowledge Engineering in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.- 11. Eon: Authoring Tools for Content, Instructional Strategy, Student Model, and Interface Design.- Section IV: Special Purpose Authoring Tools.- 12. Supporting Educational Software Design With Knowledge-Rich Tools.- 13. Developing Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems: From Design Models to Authoring Tools.- 14. The Leap Authoring Tool: Supporting complex courseware authoring through reuse, rapid prototyping, and interactive visualizations.- Section V: General Theories and Designs.- 15. Principles for Pedagogy-oriented Knowledge Based Tutor Authoring Systems: Lessons Learned and a Design Meta-Model.- 16. Authoring Tools for Component-Based Learning Environments.- 17. An Overview of Intelligent Tutoring System Authoring Tools: Updated analysis of the state of the art.- Author Index.

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