Building a Computer Tutor: Design Issues

Communities of Experts Are Needed to Provide a Focus for Articulating Distributed Knowledge in an Intelligent Tutor. The Resultant Machine Tutor Should Include Recent as Well as Historical Research About Thinking, Teach- Ing, and Learning in the Domain. Evaluating Such an Articulation Would, in Itself, Contribute to Education---and Ultimately to Communication Between Experts. Compiling Diverse Research Results From Environmental, Teaching, Cogni- Tive, and Domain Experts Is Currently Hampered by Lack of Explicit Tools to Help Authors Transfer Their Knowledge to a System. Based on Criteria Set Out Above, We Intend to Continue to Develop and Integrate Knowledge Acquis- Ition Tools to Facilitate Assimilation of Teaching and Learning Knowledge Into Intelligent Tutors.