Semi-automatic generation of interactive exercises related to search algorithms

We have developed and use in our Department the Artificial Intelligence Teaching System (AITS). AITS is an adaptive and intelligent tutoring system that teaches AI aspects and uses AI techniques for personalized learning and assessment of the students. In this paper, we present the way that AITS can help students in learning search algorithms and the learning approaches and activities it offers. Also, we present a tool developed to assist tutors to create exercises in a semi-automatic way. It is an assistant tool to be embedded into the AITS system that produces different types of interactive exercises related to AI search algorithms. The tool takes as input a number of parameters regarding the desired exercise and it creates semi-automatically the interactive exercise based on the corresponding parameters. The tool aims at helping tutors in creating and updating the teaching material. Results gathered from an evaluation study are quite promising.