Added by Sottilare, Robert about 11 years ago
Proceedings of the Second Annual GIFT Users Symposium are now available on https://www.gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/documents. Ebook versions of the proceedings will be available later this week on Google Play.
Added by Brawner, Keith about 11 years ago
GIFT 2014-3X (“Holiday GIFT”) is now available for download by registered users on the GIFT Portal at http://gifttutoring.org
Download the file here: https://gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/files
Additions/improvements include:
- Example EMAP course created to show enhanced adaptive branching
- More complete Excavator course added with additional levels of in-game assessment
- A tool for getting the status of performance assessment nodes (requested by community)
- Support for multiple users of a single GIFT instance
- Handful of bug fixes (including launching SIMILE)
Note that GIFT-2014-3X is an eXperimental release, and has not been fully regression tested. Please communicate any regression errors that you find on the forums at https://gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/boards.
Added by Sottilare, Robert over 11 years ago
2015, June 17-18th, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Scope and Topics of Interest:
The aim of this symposium is to bring together members of the GIFT User community for an in-depth exploration of tools, methods, and standards for Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) as part of the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) research project sponsored by the US Army Research Laboratory. GIFT is a free, modular, service-oriented architecture whose goal is to make automated authoring, automated instruction, and effect analysis easy and cost-effective. GIFT has three primary objectives:
(1)reduce the skill and time needed to author ITSs
(2)provide an automated instructional capability based upon best tutoring principles, strategies, and tactics for use in ITSs;
(3)enable experimentation to analyze the effectiveness and impact of ITS components, tools, and methods.
The program committee invites GIFT practitioners and ITS scientists to submit papers highlighting their use of GIFT and recommendations for design enhancements in the following areas: automated authoring, automated instructional management, and evaluation of learning, retention and transfer effect.
Submission instructions:
Paper submissions should be 10 pages maximum in APA format and submitted through Easy Chair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giftsym3. Only submissions in .doc (Word) format will be accepted and a template will be made available on https://www.gifttutoring.org/documents/48. All submissions should be in English. Address any questions to robert.sottilare@us.army.mil.
Important Dates
Symposium abstracts due: February 27, 2015
Symposium abstracts accepted: March 11, 2015
Symposium papers due: April 3, 2015
Decisions communicated to authors: April 22, 2015
Camera ready papers due: May 15, 2015
Presentations due: June 10, 2015
Symposium dates: June 17-18, 2015
Added by Brawner, Keith over 11 years ago
Each version of GIFT has come with a new domain of instruction, to serve as an example of how to use various capabilities. The EMAP functionality in the current GIFT release allow for a pedagogical engine to select content based on information about the learner, skip content based on pre-test information, assign remediation based on post-test information, assess learners in a practice environment, and assign feedback/remediation from observations. You can see examples of most of these items by downloading a construction environment/terrain and training course on the Files tab (https://gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/files) and following the instructions in the zip files.
Added by Sottilare, Robert over 11 years ago
Hi GIFT Users... A new version of GIFT is now available to the public... we would like to hear about and share your experiences with GIFT. Have you applied GIFT in some novel way? In a classroom? Send us a picture of you and your class. For an evaluation or experiment? We would like to feature GIFT users and tell your story on www.GIFTtutoring.org.
Email your stories to: robert.a.sottilare.civ@mail.mil and title your email "GIFT User Experience"
Regards,
GIFT Development Team
Added by Ragusa, Charlie over 11 years ago
GIFT 2014-2 is now available for download by registered users on the GIFT Portal at http://gifttutoring.org
Download the file here: https://gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/files
Additions/improvements include:
After downloading, more details are available in the release notes.
Added by Brawner, Keith over 11 years ago
The GIFT team anticipated a fully regression tested release (2014-2), shortly followed by an experimental release (2014-3X). In order to enhance functionality, there will be a software release at the end of September, titled 2014-2.
Added by Goldberg, Ben almost 12 years ago
This afternoon is the start of GIFTSym2 at 1pm! For those attending, below is information regarding the location.
Gates-Hillman Center
Room 6115
Carnegie Mellon University
4902 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891
For parking information, please use this link:
http://www.cmu.edu/parking/about/locations.html
Added by Sottilare, Robert almost 12 years ago
Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems - Volume 2 - Instructional Management" is now available in pdf format. This book is a collaboration between ARL, the University of Memphis, and scores of government and academic partners to provide a ready reference for researchers and ITS developers. Download at https://gifttutoring.org/projects/gift/documents
Added by Ragusa, Charlie almost 12 years ago
We discovered an issue with the Sensor Module in the 2014-1X GIFT release, where if the module was configured with one or more sensors a null pointer exception would be thrown. The exception occurs as soon as the user starts any GIFT course.
If you plan on running your GIFT instance with a sensor, be sure to check out the forum post that describes the remedy for this issue: https://gifttutoring.org/boards/5/topics/393
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