A web-based socratic tutor for trees recognition

Abstract

Socratic dialogues has been widely uses as a way of implement an ITS. The idea behind it is that the teaching and learning process should be based upon a personal reflection that can be obtained posing the right question on a guided dialogue. This methodology assumes that the knowledge acquisition is a discovering process in which both the teacher and the student plays an active role. This tutorial strategy has been developed as a part of a web based ITS architecture for declarative domains and it has been applied to the botanical domain. In this paper we describe this component, the knowledge representation that support it and the web interface used. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000.