A pedagogical framework to integrate learning style into intelligent tutoring systems

Educational systems can be more adaptive and effective when they incorporate learning style models. Developing a learning style based system is not a trivial task and presents challenges such as selecting the appropriate learning style model and instrument, creating course content consistent with the various learning styles, and determining the level and degree of adaptation of domain content. We present a pedagogical framework that makes it possible to integrate learning style into an intelligent tutoring system. This domain independent framework is based on the Felder-Silverman learning style model and has been designed in the context of CIMEL-ITS, which helps students learn object-oriented design using UML.