The paper introduces a system that has several
paths to solution in an intelligent tutoring system platform and
then chooses the most desired path to the solution. The desired
path in this case is the right path to knowledge or solution that
the student tends to understand after several attempt. This
system models the student’s level of assimilation while
tutoring with any chosen path per time. It possesses the
capability to note or store the best path to solution at any given
time so as to use the best path to solution whenever it has to
deliver lecture the next time thereby not start all over again.
This ensures that tutoring is done using the desired and best
path to knowledge, thereby reducing the student learning
curve. This system still works with the previous intelligent
system structures as discussed by Nwana, 1990;[11] ,
Freedman, 2000;[2] , and Nkambou et al, 2010;[3] but rather
than just have the knowledge base populated with just one path
to solution within the domain model, it will now contain more
than one path to solution, then after several teachings and
modeling the students based on their understanding level in
each case, the system should be able to know the best path
which is the shortest and desired path to the solution. In this
work, we shall be looking at how this system works and its
relevance to our tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
Ifeanyi Isaiah Achi : Department of Computer Science, Our Saviour Institute of Science and Technology, Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.
Chukwuemeka Odi Agwu : Department of Computer Science, Ebonyi State University – Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.
Multi Agent Intelligent Tutoring System
(MAITS)
Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS)
Single path ITS
(SPITS)
Multi Path Intelligent Tutoring System (MPITS)
This multi path Intelligent Tutoring system will be
helpful in our education system here in Nigeria if fully
developed and deployed. This is because it does not only
provide teaching services but it also models the students
under tutor to know if they understood the subject matter
tutored or not before they can proceed to the next step
which is the examination. As against other systems
which use examination as a yardstick to determining the
students understanding of a subject matter.
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