A NEW APPROACH TO ITS-CURRICULUM AND COURSE AUTHORING - THE AUTHORINGENVIRONMENT

The aim of this paper is to present an authoring environment dedicated to the development of curriculum and course material that can be hand led by an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS). The adopted curriculum mo del is CREAM (Curriculum Representation and Acquisition Model) which r epresents subject-matter content from the domain, the pedagogical and the didactic points of view. The authoring environment, called CREAM-T ools, consists of a set of tools able to create and edit all bf the el ements (domain knowledge, instructional objective, didactic resources, pedagogical and didactic model) of a curriculum. This set of tools co ntains, among others, graphical editors, intelligent assistance and kn owledge browsers. The environment also includes a course generation ki t that allows a designer to generate a course by specifying a target p ublic and a course description. This paper also presents curriculum an d course development approaches (methodologies). The delivery of curri culums and courses produced from this environment is done by an object -oriented ITS. The teaching process is supported by new technologies s uch as World-Wide Web browsers. We also show ways in which other modul es in an intelligent tutoring system can exploit the resulting curricu lums and courses in the teaching-learning process. (C) 1998 Elsevier S cience Ltd. All rights reserved.