Chapter 5: Knowledge Management for Agent-Based Tutoring Systems

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Ping Chen
University of Houston-Downtown, USA

Wei Ding
University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA

Abstract

As the education field is becoming increasingly technology heavy, more educational systems involve line or interactive training and tutoring techniques, and lots of educational information becomes available via the intranet and World Wide Web. Managing large volumes of learning information and knowledge is one of the crucial issues for these educational systems, as appropriate knowledge management is the key to more effective and efficient learning. The chapter first discusses that an intelligent agent system could be successfully applied to the education field and then focuses on how knowledge management techniques play an important role in agent-based tutoring systems.

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