Combining Individual Tutoring with Automatic Course Sequencing in WBT Systems

Usually, the success of systems using automatic course se-quencing depends strongly on careful authoring and foresee-ing of all curriculum alternatives before any learning session even starts. We believe that tutors, starting from a sim-ple generic curriculum, and assuming that they have the proper tools, can much easier create curriculum alternatives as immediate response to the current learning situation. In this paper we present a tool that provides a flexible en-vironment for tutors allowing them to customize, and de-velop the curriculum on-the-fly. However, since individual tutoring is quite expensive we shortly discuss possibilities for enabling automatic adjustment of course curriculum to learners ’ needs by combining on-the-fly curriculum alterna-tives created by tutors with well-known automatic course sequencing techniques. Categories and Subject Descriptor