Cognitive Instruction Theory and Instruction Practice for "Expert System"

According to the curriculum standard of information technology in high school, the instruction requirement to the Expert System module in the elective course of "Elementary Artificial Intelligence" is to learn how to use a simple expert system shell (ESS) and how to develop a simple expert system with the ESS. On the basis of analyzing the relationship between expert system and its shell, this paper discusses the cognitive instruction theory of the instruction module—"developing expert system with the ESS". Moreover, an applicable case is introduced for the instruction module based on the cognitive instruction theory.