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Advances in Intelligent Tutoring Systems pp 361–375Cite as

Building Intelligent Tutoring Systems: An Overview

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Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 308))

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This chapter addresses the challenge of building or authoring an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), along with the problems that have arisen and been dealt with, and the solutions that have been tested. We begin by clarifying what building an ITS entails, and then position today’s systems in the overall historical context of ITS research. The chapter concludes with a series of open questions and an introduction to the other chapters in this part of the book.

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    Jacqueline Bourdeau & Valéry Psyché

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Nkambou, R., Bourdeau, J., Psyché, V. (2010). Building Intelligent Tutoring Systems: An Overview. In: Nkambou, R., Bourdeau, J., Mizoguchi, R. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 308. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14363-2_18

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