INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEMS AS AN INTEGRAL ELEMENT OF A NEW GENERATION OF THE ELECTRONIC EDUCATION SYSTEM
Siniša Tomić, Branko Latinović, Miloš Pašić · Knowledge International Journal · 2017
Nowadays, most of the e-learning systems enable their users to create, organize, and use computer-designed educational contents. After completing required authentication, students choose educational contents independently and of their own free will, e.g. they watch video recordings of lectures held or they solve predefined tests. As much as this concept is good in the sense that students determine their pace of learning by themselves and choose educational contents they consider necessary to overcome, on the other hand, there is a real danger that they could skip some elements of the teaching content or study some too easy or too difficult contents. It is necessary to ensure that e-learning systems guide students through the learning process taking into account the knowledge and the needs of the individual, which personalizes learning. In this way, electronic education systems move from the classical form to a higher “intelligent” level, which has proven to give better results and to make learning more interesting. The individual does not have to adapt to the system because intelligent systems adapt to the individual. It is therefore necessary to extend the functionality of the existing learning management systems (LMS) by introducing some adaptive, narrowly specialized intelligent systems designed for personalization of learning which are called Intelligent Tutoring Systems.