FACILITATING DYNAMIC PEDAGOGICAL DECISION-MAKING - PEPE AND GTE

The Generic Tutoring Environment (GTE) is centred around a generic ins tructional knowledge base that facilitates dynamic pedagogical decisio n making. PEPE is a computational framework for representing the pedag ogical knowledge required to dynamically tailor instruction to an indi vidual student. Both the GTE model and the PEPE framework form the bas is for an instructional component that orchestrates the courseware's i nteraction with the student. In this paper, the knowledge content of t he two is examined and the role of each in instructional planning is d escribed. In general, it is concluded that PEPE and GTE complement one another and a merging of their ideas would be a worthwhile endeavour.