Considerations in Adding Adaptive Training to Existing Virtual Environments

Virtual environments (VEs) afford learners the ability to train in simulated versions of real-world environments or in novel environments to attain or refine skills. Performance within these training tasks are likely to benefit from appropriate feedback and assessments. As the usefulness of VEs and adaptive training technology become more valuable, recommendations and considerations on their integration are important to explore. There are opportunities to integrate these existing environments with adaptive training using a domain-independent intelligent tutoring system (ITS) framework, such as the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT). This paper discusses considerations and approaches to adding intelligent tutoring to existing VEs to extend their usefulness and accessibility.