Toward a Trace-Based PROMETHEE II Method to answer " What can teachers do? " in Online Distance Learning Applications

In an Online Distance Learning (ODL) application, the learning sce- nario is a situation chaining from an initial system’s state to one of the final states where course’s criteria are met. A situation is a contextualized sequence of interactions. Teachers are successively involved in different situations: at the end of one situation, they choose the next one. An Intelligent Tutoring System will be used to support teachers in choosing an appropriate situation. In this pa- per, we show how to apply a decision method (PROMETHEE II) combining with the system traces analysis to automatically recommend to teachers one situation in order to execute during an e-Learning course. Experimental results of our ODL environment are presented to illustrate our method.