Advanced Interactive Learning Environments (Level 11) (P00846)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : INF-P-AILE

Computer based tools and learning environments are increasingly used in teaching and learning. This course explores how such educational systems can be made more interactive and adaptive, in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of the teaching that they provide. A number of techniques and examples of existing systems will be considered, in addition to the theoretical basis for these. This course aims to better equip students with the skills to design and evaluate intelligent and adaptive educational systems.

This course is identical to the level 10 version except for the assessed coursework and additional learning outcome.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : PGs only.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Artificial Intelligence, (School of Informatics, Schedule O)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
10/01/2006	14:00	15:00	Room G.01, William Robertson Building	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	14:50	Central
Lecture	Friday	14:00	14:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

It is anticipated that students who successfully complete the course will be able to:
* demonstrate knowledge of approaches and methods used in previous systems through their application to new teaching tasks;
* demonstrate an understanding of the design issues in developing educational tools and environments through completing a number of design tasks;
* describe methods that can be used to evaluate educational systems and apply these to existing systems;
* use existing tools to design and build simple components of an educational system;
* critically evaluate such components in relation to existing systems.
* demonstrate their knowledge of the state of the art of a topic area covered in the course.