BIDEMAT – INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM

Abstract

In this work, an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) called BIDEMAT, which brings together pedagogical field knowledge, information technology, and artificial intelligence technologies have been developed. This system provides students with an effective individual learning environment in which distance learning is possible regardless of time and space, in other words, in the classroom environment. It also provides teachers dynamic environment in which they can always get to their students, follow their learning performance, add materials about new topics and measurement assessment tools. While The BIDEMAT ITS system follows and assesses students step by step throughout the teaching process and guides it through intelligence guidance, teachers will be able to allocate more time to their students. Because ITS can direct students individually according to the rules set by the teacher and the teacher can also interfere his / her students through the system. Thanks to this system, the teacher will be more active in the teaching and assessment process and will gain considerable time. Thus, the tutors can concentrate on developing more teaching materials and content by being out of the routine teaching process, and they can make learning richer, more attractive and more fun by creating new resources. Considering the increasing importance of distance education systems in the world and our country, the BIDEMAT ITS system constitutes an important example for course software which cannot be fully implemented within the scope of FATIH project.It is very important to consider learner characteristics and needs while designing learning environments with a learner-centered teaching approach. Because individual differences of learners influence their learning styles, learning histories, learning speeds, expectations, and information. However, the fact that the content and teaching programs offered to learners are the same causes the learners to become squeezed and become disconnected from the learning process. The best way to overcome this problem is to include the Adaptive Learning Environments (ALEs) which make it possible to design flexible learning environments and support different learning styles by taking individual needs into in the teaching process. ALEs provide individualized learning opportunities that enable users to experience an effective learning experience thanks to the use of new web technologies and artificial intelligence algorithms. These environments manage the learning process by providing to learners the right content that they need with the right strategy in time and by following theirs learning improvement and giving to them the necessary recommendations. These systems are named as Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The number of studies carried out in the ITS field in our country is limited. One of these is the application of agent-based learning system developed by Ozdemir (2000) in the Middle East University. Another study in this field is the development of intelligent tutoring system component with Prolog (Dağ 2003). In an another a study, the system called ZOSMAT, which emphasizes cognitive activities, is designed to be a virtual classroom environment as well as to meet the needs of real classrooms (Keles et al., 2007). It is a student-centered system. Improvement in the learning process depends on the student’s own effort. All the facilities of the technology were utilized in order to make learning easier and permanent. In this work, an intelligent teaching system called BIDEMAT, which brings together pedagogical field knowledge, information technology, and artificial intelligence technologies have been developed. This system provides students with an effective individual learning environment in which distance learning is possible regardless of time and space, in other words, in the classroom environment. It also provides teachers dynamic environment in which they can always get to their students, follow their learning performance, add materials about new topics and measurement assessment tools. While The BIDEMAT ITS system follows and assesses students step by step throughout the teaching process and guides it through intelligence guidance, teachers will be able to allocate more time to their students. Because ITS can direct students individually according to the rules set by the teacher and the teacher can also interfere his / her students through the system. In this system, the teacher is only a guide. He/she follows learning situations of students on the system and sends a message via e-mail or system to guide the student. The content of the BIDEMAT sytem can be updated dynamically for each course and topic. In this study, the issues of the “Factors and Multiples” were used as a content of learning. BIDEMAT system was developed with BAP 2012/EĞİTİM-02 project support at Agri Ibrahim Cecen Universty. The system consists of four component. These components are a tutorial module, Knowledge module, student model and evaluation and recommendation module. The tutorial module of the system is the manage panel.Thanks to this module, the tutor can check his/her students’ the learning performances and exam results, lead them on the system, communicate with them via chat and ban their some activities on the system. The information module provides content management of the system. Instructional content and measurement evaluation questions related to the subject that the teacher wants to teach can be entered into the system through this module. These may include videos, analytical examples and animations, additional questions to the pool of questions, and flash games that will create motivational rewards. This module provides a dynamic structure to the BIDEMAT system by keeping the contents and measurement evaluation questions up to date with the file management feature. This module allows the Tutor to view all content and questions related to the lesson or topic and plan the teaching pro

Özet

Bu çalışmada pedagojik alan bilgisi, bilişim teknolojileri ve yapay zekâ teknolojilerini bir araya getiren BİDEMAT adında zeki bir öğretim sistemi geliştirilmiştir. Bu sistem öğrencilere zaman ve mekân yani sınıf ortamından bağımsız uzaktan eğitimin mümkün olduğu etkin bir bireysel öğrenme ortamı sunar. Öğretmenlere ise öğrencilerine her zaman ulaşabilecekleri, onların öğrenme performanslarını takip edebilecekleri, yeni öğrenilecek konularla ilgili materyalleri ve ölçme değerlendirme araçlarını ekleyebilecekleri dinamik uyarlanabilir bir ortam sunar. BİDEMAT ZÖS sistemi öğrenciyi öğretim süreci boyunca adım adım izleyip değerlendirirken ve akıllı yönlendirme bileşeni sayesinde yönlendirirken ayırabilmektedir. Çünkü ZÖS öğretmenin belirlediği kurallara göre öğrencileri bireysel olarak yönlendirebilmekte ve öğretmen gerekli gördüğü durumlarda öğrencisine sistem üzerinden ayrıca müdahale edebilmektedir. Bu sayede öğretmen, hem öğretim ve ölçme değerlendirme sürecinde daha aktif rol almakta hem de önemli derecede zaman kazanmaktadır. Böylece öğreticiler rutin öğretim sürecinden çıkarak daha faklı öğretim materyalleri ve içerikler geliştirmek üzerine yoğunlaşabilir yeni kaynaklar oluşturarak öğrenmeyi daha zengin, çekici ve eğlenceli hale getirebilirler. Dünyada ve ülkemizde giderek önemi artan uzaktan eğitim sistemleri dikkate alındığında BİDEMAT ZÖS sistemi, FATİH projesi kapsamında bir türlü tam olarak uygulamaya koyulamayan ders yazılımları için önemli bir örnek oluşturmaktadır