The Education Dominance program will enable students to learn at their own pace, in their own style, with their own digital tutor. In this way, students will not simply memorize information, but will learn and understand the concepts upon which information is built.
Warfighters today must master a diverse set of physical and mental skills, often in a very compressed period. Measures of learning in this military environment often rely on qualitative and subjective assessment, with little opportunity to correct or redirect learning in mid-course.
The Education Dominance program will enable students to learn at their own pace, in their own style, with their own digital tutor. In this way, students will not simply memorize information, but will learn and understand the concepts upon which information is built. They will train to a standard of competence, not rote recall, to demonstrate significant improvements in mastery of complex concepts. Novices trained on Digital Tutor will acquire accelerated problem-solving capabilities that will enable them to compete with experienced operational experts. Education Dominance focuses on several key approaches:
- Replicating expert tutor behavior using knowledge engineering techniques.
- Modeling intrinsic motivation and memory to optimize learning and consolidation.
- Building student/tutor models based on abstractions of a wide range of student behaviors with live tutors.
- Incorporating remediation strategies to enable the Digital Tutor to provide targeted reinforcement.