Facilitating dynamic pedagogical decision making: PEPE and GTE

The Generic Tutoring Environment (GTE) is centred around a generic instructional knowledge base that facilitates dynamic pedagogical decision making. PEPE is a computational framework for representing the pedagogical knowledge required to dynamically tailor instruction to an individual student. Both the GTE model and the PEPE framework form the basis for an instructional component that orchestrates the courseware's interaction with the student. In this paper, the knowledge content of the two is examined and the role of each in instructional planning is described. In general, it is concluded that PEPE and GTE complement one another and a merging of their ideas would be a worthwhile endeavour.