Share Paper: Sharing Learners’ Behavior to Enhance a Metacognition-oriented Intelligent Tutoring System

  1. Julien Broisin, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
  2. Philippe Vidal, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France
Wednesday, October 23 1:50 PM-2:10 PM Las Vegas Ballroom 6

Abstract: Literature shows that Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) are growing in acceptance and popularity because they increase performances of students, leverage cognitive development, but also significantly reduce time to acquire knowledge and competencies. Moreover, monitoring metacognitive skills enables learners to assess performance and select appropriate fix-up: individuals unable to ensure self-monitoring cannot detect errors and as a consequence, they process information less efficiently than skilled monitors. Thus, we present an ITS offering the opportunity of evaluating various metacognitive indicators and able to share this information with others learning tools. Our online tutor is based on an existing ITS authoring tool that ...