Beverly Park Woolf

"The field of AI in Education is concerned with development of Artificial Intelligence techniques for the study of human teaching and for the engineering of systems that facilitate human learning."

"Three research goals have become apparent. The first is to use AI and cognitive science techniques to model experts who problem-solve in a domain, as well as tutors teaching and students learning in that domain."

"The second research goal involves explaining learning and teaching as parts of the human information-processing system. Since all intelligent beings learn, differences in learning rates might be due to a level of prior knowledge or to the quality of teaching."

"The third research goal is to demonstrate completeness and reliability in the engineering side of the discipline and to show that intelligent instructional systems can be used effectively in training and classroom situations."

"Research activities in this field are important to education, not only because such systems might someday become routine in classrooms, but also because such systems might support students in activities not available in traditional classrooms, such as extensive oneon-one collaboration with a tutor and freedom to explore hypothetical worlds, to make conjectures, and to test hypotheses."

"Knowledge Representation. In constructing intelligent tutors, two aspects of knowledge representation (qv) are important. First, what knowledge do teachers and trainers use to understand the domain, diagnose student behavior, and select new strategic approaches, and second, what are good representational schemes for encoding domain knowledge."