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    The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs
    (2015) Aleven, V.; Sewall, J.; Popescu, O.; Xhakaj, F.; Chand, D.; Baker, R.; Wang, Y.; Siemens, G.; Ros�, C.; Gasevic, D.
    A key challenge in ITS research and development is to support tutoring at scale, for example by embedding tutors in MOOCs. An obstacle to at-scale deployment is that ITS architectures tend to be complex, not easily deployed in browsers without significant server-side processing, and not easily embedded in a learning management system (LMS). We present a case study in which a widely used ITS authoring tool suite, CTAT/TutorShop, was modified so that tutors can be embedded in MOOCs. Specifically, the inner loop (the example-tracing tutor engine) was moved to the client by reimplementing it in JavaScript, and the tutors were made compatible with the LTI e-learning standard. The feasibility of this general approach to ITS/MOOC integration was demonstrated with simple tutors in an edX MOOC �Data Analytics and Learning.� � Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
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    The beginning of a beautiful friendship? Intelligent tutoring systems and MOOCs
    (Springer Verlag service@springer.de, 2015) Aleven, V.; Sewall, J.; Popescu, O.; Xhakaj, F.; Chand, D.; Baker, R.; Wang, Y.; Siemens, G.; Rosé, C.; Gašević, D.
    A key challenge in ITS research and development is to support tutoring at scale, for example by embedding tutors in MOOCs. An obstacle to at-scale deployment is that ITS architectures tend to be complex, not easily deployed in browsers without significant server-side processing, and not easily embedded in a learning management system (LMS). We present a case study in which a widely used ITS authoring tool suite, CTAT/TutorShop, was modified so that tutors can be embedded in MOOCs. Specifically, the inner loop (the example-tracing tutor engine) was moved to the client by reimplementing it in JavaScript, and the tutors were made compatible with the LTI e-learning standard. The feasibility of this general approach to ITS/MOOC integration was demonstrated with simple tutors in an edX MOOC “Data Analytics and Learning.†© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.