RITS — Rule-based Intelligent Tutoring System
In 2015, I was approached by
Vamobi,
a company located in Mozambique, with ideas to improve education
in developing nations. Vamobi's
CEO Abel
Viageiro pointed me to the PhD
thesis Student
Modelling by Adaptive Testing - A Knowledge-based Approach
by Sophiana Chua Abdullah, where a so-called intelligent
tutoring system (ITS) is described.
Between 2015 and 2018, I implemented a prototype of an ITS, which
I called
RITS: Rule-based intelligent tutoring system. RITS
is an extensible system that helps students and teachers by
providing automated feedback. RITS is a web-based application written
in Prolog, using the Pengines
library
by Torbjörn
Lager.
Implementing an ITS is a very complex, yet worthwhile task. If you
are interested in this topic and have the capacity to plan and
sustain an IT-project for multiple decades, please contact me. It
is not only an issue of funding, but also a matter of patience and
perspective, personal contacts, domain knowledge and many other
essential skills.
My work on RITS also provided an important motivation
for Proloxy and—to a lesser
extent— the cryptographic
functionality which I have since made available in Prolog
libraries.
So, many thanks to Vamobi for indirectly contributing to these
developments!
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