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There is a need for easier, more cost-effective means of developing intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). A novel and advantageous solution to this problem is proposed here: the development of task-specific ITS shells that can generate tutoring systems for different domains within a given class of tasks. Task-specific authoring shells offer flexibility in generating ITSs for different domains, while still being powerful enough to build knowledgeable tutors. Two widely adopted task-specific methodologies, GTs and KADS, are examined and compared in the context of automatic generation of intelligent tutoring systems.
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El-Sheikh, E., Sticklen, J. (1999). Leveraging a Task-Specific Approach for Intelligent Tutoring System Generation: Comparing the Generic Tasks and KADS Frameworks. In: Imam, I., Kodratoff, Y., El-Dessouki, A., Ali, M. (eds) Multiple Approaches to Intelligent Systems. IEA/AIE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48765-4_86
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