WISE Tutor
(Work-centric Intelligent System
for Education):
Manufacturing a New Learning
Environment
WISE Tutor
(Work-centric Intelligent System
for Education):
Manufacturing a New Learning
Environment
This project is funded by US Dept. of Education, FIPSE grant P116B70787
PROJECT SUMMARY
Worker flexibility is the key to advanced manufacturing production. Workers need to be dynamically deployed in response to changing production requirements. The only constant in this environment is constant training and retraining. The challenge is for American technical and community colleges to create a new, competency-based model of education that can develop a flexible, highly skilled workforce capable of keeping up with technological advances.
WISE Tutor is a web-based, multimedia computer training program based on state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The WISE Tutor software models the Chip Insertion Machine, a piece of equipment that produces complex circuit boards and is widely used in the electronic manufacturing industry. However, this technology can be used to deliver any content material.
PROJECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
WISE Tutor Software Version 0.3 is completed and is available.
The software was demonstrated to a small group of manufacturing trainers and technicians. The questionnaire responses indicated that 33% of students thought that WISE Tutor was excellent as a learning tool, another 33% thought that it was a very good learning tool, and 11% thought that it was a good learning tool. One respondent thought it was only a fair learning tool.
The project is in its third phase which is the dissemination of the WISE Tutor to a broader audience. Those interested in trying out the software and possibly using it as a class module, please contact Mason Mitchell-Daniels (617-618-2127, e-mail: mmitchell-daniels@edc.org).
AVAILABLE SOFTWARE:
WISE Tutor Software is currently available by request. Please contact Mason Mitchell-Daniels for more information. WISE Tutor is not available for download at this time.
SAMPLE WISE TUTOR EXECUTION:
WISE TUTOR WINDOWS FOR STUDENT INTERACTION
The WISE Tutor software currently contains 19 scenarios. For a demonstration
of the tool, contact Mason Mitchell-Daniels.
John Wong
Senior Project Director
Center for Education, Employment, and Community
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
617-618-2348 • johnw@edc.org
Mason Mitchell-Daniels
Project Coordinator
Center for Education, Employment, and Community
Education Development Center, Inc.
55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02458
617-618-2127 • mmitchell-daniels@edc.org
Center for Knowledge Communication
Beverly Woolf
Computer Science Department
UMass
Amherst, MA 01003-4610
413-549-6036 • bev@cs.umass.edu
Dave Miller
Telecommunications Systems Manufacturing Technology
Pease Education & Training Center
67 New Hampshire Ave.
Portsmouth, NH 03801
603-334-6306 • d_miller@ophley.mv.com