The Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 9 – Competency-Based Scenario Design Book is now published and available for download! The book is free, and is available in the documents tab of gifttutoring.org or through this link: https://www.gifttutoring.org/documents/158
This book on Competency-Based Scenario Design is the 9th in a series of books that examine key topics (e.g., learner modeling, instructional strategies, authoring, domain modeling, assessment, team tutoring, self-improving systems, data visualization, competency-based scenario design) in intelligent tutoring system (ITS) design. This book focuses on competency-based scenario design. The discussion chapters in this book examine topics through the lens of the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT). GIFT is a modular, service-oriented architecture created to reduce the cost and skill required to author ITSs, distribute ITSs, manage instruction within ITSs, and evaluate the effect of ITS technologies on learning, performance, retention, transfer of skills, and other instructional outcomes.
Citation: Sinatra, A.M., Graesser, A.C., Hu, X., Goldberg, B., Hampton, A.J., and Johnston, J.H. (Eds.). (2022). Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Volume 9 - Competency-Based Scenario Design. Orlando, FL: US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command - Soldier Center. ISBN 978-0-9977258-1-0. Available at: https://www.gifttutoring.org/documents/158
Hello GIFT Community,
We wanted to share a quick announcement to let you know GIFT Cloud will be offline tomorrow (22 December) at 10:00am Eastern USA to support maintenance and upgrade activities. We estimate these tasks should take approximately 60 minutes to complete. If there are any unforeseen issues, we will send out an updated announcement accordingly. Reach out if this will cause any significant issues.
Have a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year!
Your GIFT Team :)
The time has arrived...GIFT 2021-2 is now available!!
Download GIFT 2021-2 directly here: https://gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/files
A GIFT account is required to download the software, and is available at no cost.
This release features:
- First team-focused use case within a Unity based scenario, highlighting team tutoring functions, along with new condition classes and assessment logic.
- Game Master improvements with new visualization supports and a Summative Assessment Scoring Dialog.
- Implementation of GIFT messages in a Protobuf Syntax.
- Better course sharing with improved settings and permissions.
- Enhanced xAPI generation capabilities, with a 'Chain of Custody' component that references back to the specific training instance and GIFT data logs an xAPI statement was generated from.
- Improved TEAM tutoring, with multiple players, lobby system, and...
- Integration with the desktop version of Unity
- New condition classes and scenario adaptation supports in synthetic game environments
- Integration with the open source Competency and Skill System (CaSS)
- Interactive remediation supports now implemented
- And more!
GIFT Cloud updates will still be deployed regularly, so keep track of GIFT news items for announcements on new functionality.
For a full breakdown of all new functions and services, visit this link to the GIFT2021-1 release notes:
https://gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/wiki/Release_Notes_2021-2
The ISP issue has been resolved. All GIFT services are working again.
Due to an ISP issue some of the GIFT services are currently down. This includes accessing GIFT Cloud and gifttutoring.org. Our ISP provider has not provided a timeframe to fix the issue. We will post another news item when it has been fixed.
The 9th Annual GIFT Users Symposium (GIFTSYM9) Proceedings are now available for download.
You can access them at the following URL and under the documents Tab at https://gifttutoring.org.
https://gifttutoring.org/documents/155
We're excited to share this work with the community. If you have feedback, don't hesitate to reach out.
