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 Rosé; 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 Rosé, Dragan Gasevic

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Abstract

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	Christina Conati, Neil Heffenan, Antonija Mitrovic, M. Felisa Verdejo
Place of Publication	Cham Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Pages	525-528
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319197739
ISBN (Print)	9783319197722
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_53
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 2015 - Madrid, Spain Duration: 22 Jun 2015 → 26 Jun 2015 Conference number: 17th https://perseo.lsi.uned.es/aied2015/ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9 (Proceedings)

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer
Volume	9112
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 2015
Abbreviated title	AIED 2015
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Madrid
Period	22/06/15 → 26/06/15
Internet address	https://perseo.lsi.uned.es/aied2015/ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9 (Proceedings)

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

Aleven, Vincent ; Sewall, Jonathan ; Popescu, Octav et al. / The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs. Artificial Intelligence in Education: 17th International Conference, AIED 2015 Madrid, Spain, June 22–26, 2015 Proceedings. editor / Christina Conati ; Neil Heffenan ; Antonija Mitrovic ; M. Felisa Verdejo. Cham Switzerland : Springer, 2015. pp. 525-528 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Aleven, V, Sewall, J, Popescu, O, Xhakaj, F, Chand, D, Baker, R, Wang, Y, Siemens, G, Rosé, C & Gasevic, D 2015, The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs. in C Conati, N Heffenan, A Mitrovic & MF Verdejo (eds), Artificial Intelligence in Education: 17th International Conference, AIED 2015 Madrid, Spain, June 22–26, 2015 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9112, Springer, Cham Switzerland, pp. 525-528, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 2015, Madrid, Spain, 22/06/15. 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.

Artificial Intelligence in Education: 17th International Conference, AIED 2015 Madrid, Spain, June 22–26, 2015 Proceedings. ed. / Christina Conati; Neil Heffenan; Antonija Mitrovic; M. Felisa Verdejo. Cham Switzerland : Springer, 2015. p. 525-528 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9112).

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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, Heffenan N, Mitrovic A, Verdejo MF, editors, Artificial Intelligence in Education: 17th International Conference, AIED 2015 Madrid, Spain, June 22–26, 2015 Proceedings. Cham Switzerland: Springer. 2015. p. 525-528. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19773-9_53

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