DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE BASED TUTORING SYSTEM ON BASIC CONCEPTS OF ENGINEERING DRAWING

Learning is a continuously evolving process with a constant search for newer and more suitable strategies and tools for enhancing its effectiveness along with more student centric approaches. Heterogenous nature of the classes demands individualisation of teaching coupled with more adaptive teaching strategies. Knowledge Based Tutoring System (KBTS) is one such approach of customising instruction to the needs of individual learners. Domain Knowledge Component, Student component, Pedagogy component and Control component are used in KBTS to model different entities involved in teaching learning process. Planning, Discussion, Evaluation and Remediation modules cater to the communication requirements of the system. Engineering Drawing, a course in the Engineering Curriculum of different universities, require high level of abstract visualisation skills on the part of the learners to imagine various objects is different positions and orientations in order to draw their views. This paper discusses the steps followed in developing a Knowledge Based Tutoring System for teaching the basic concepts of Engineering Drawing to the engineering students.