An Updated Concept for a Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT)

The purpose of this document is to provide users of the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT) with a fundamental understanding of the function, goals/challenges, and research activities associated with the development of a largely domain-independent adaptive instructional capability for the US Army. While the design team for GIFT imagines capabilities beyond military training, the focus of our research is to solve the hard problems and break through barriers to the adoption of adaptive instruction as a practical tool for guiding military training. Adaptive instruction delivers content, offers feedback, and intervenes with learners based on tailored strategies and tactics with the goal of optimizing learning, performance, retention, and transfer of skills for both individual learners and teams. As of this year (2017) the concept that developed into the initial GIFT capability is five years old. So much has been accomplished over the last five years that the team saw the need to update the original GIFT concept document (Sottilare, Brawner, Goldberg, & Holden, 2012) by discussing research goals and their relationship to military requirements. The remainder of this introduction will focus on military motivation, tools to evaluate the effectiveness of candidate adaptive instructional technologies prior to integration in GIFT, and the economic motivation for a GIFT.

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