Adaptive Learning Environments

Adaptive Learning Environments (ALEs) can be viewed as the§intersection of two traditionally distinct areas of§research: instructional science and computer science. They§encompass intelligent tutoring systems, interactive learning§environments, and situated learning environments. There is§increasing interest in effective instructional systems from§education, industry, military and government sectors. Given§recent advances in hardware architecture and reduction of§hardware costs, the time is right to define the next steps§in research and development of ALEs.§This book is an outgrowth of the presentations and§discussions that took place at the NATO Advanced Study§Institute held at the University of Calgary in July 1990. It§contains chapters from both researchers in instructional§science and researchers in computer science on the following§topics:§- Systems and architectures for instruction§- Representing curriculum and designing instructional tasks§- Environments to support learning§- Diagnosing students' learning and adjusting plans for§instruction§- Models of students' metacognition, motivation and learning§strategies§- Student-system interactions.§The book containsintroductions/critiques of each pair of§chapters, and a final chapter discusses the synthesis of§instructional science and computer science.