Zachary Pardos announces what he says is the release of "the field's first open-source intelligent tutoring system and creative commons content library." I'm not sure about whether it's the first anything (why do people always claim to be first?) but it's definitely the release (GitHub) and publication (17 page PDF) of the Open Adaptive Tutor (OATutor). In a nutshell, a community of users records resource locations in a Google spreadsheet, and the tutor uses these to create adptive learning paths for individuals. It's a lot like a cMOOC, in other words, except that the algorithm, rather than the student, selects from the list of contents and quizzes to attempt. Demo.
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