A laboratory based survey of research in the application of computer
technology to educational problems. The course will survey the
literature of the field and explore available computer-based
education systems through student selected projects.
The standard strategy for frontier research in educational
technology has been to develop facilities on expensive,
sophisticated computers for anticipated use in educational
settings when declining prices make more powerful machines
more generally available. The field is now ripe for reporting
and exhibiting work based on the technology of the early and mid-1980s.
For the last five years, state of the art work in tutoring systems
and learning environments has been taking place on Lisp machine systems.
There is now a significant body of work reported in the literature
and on the verge of publication which permits today the previewing
of the kinds of systems that will be available for educational and
training applications in the immdediate future.
on the web
AI in Education Course
http://www.edci.purdue.edu/lawler/courses/aied.html