Literature can sometimes tend to present context and culture almost as synonyms. This
creates ambiguity, which can complicate the consideration of contextual and cultural …

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 …

When the goal of group activities is to support long-term learning, the task of designing well-
thought-out collaborative learning (CL) scenarios is an important key to success. To help …

This chapter offers an account of Christopher Alexander's notions of design patterns and
principles. He pioneered the design pattern approach while being sceptical of design …

This chapter introduces Part II on modeling tutoring knowledge in ITS research. Starting with
its origin and with a characterization of tutoring, it proposes a general definition of tutoring …

This paper presents a course-centered ontology for assisting learning support systems to
embody the relations among knowledge points and also among the learning materials for …

Synthesising design principles is an arduous task: Research literature databases and the
web have to be searched for relevant information; principles have to be identified …

This article reflects on the ontology engineering methodology discussed by the paper
entitled “Using Ontological Engineering to Overcome AI-ED Problems” published in this …

Abstract The Extensible Problem Specific Tutor (xPST) allows authors who are not cognitive
scientists and not programmers to quickly create an intelligent tutoring system that provides …

This paper addresses the problem of cultural and native language interference in
second/foreign language acquisition. More specifically, it examines issues of interference …