Decision Support System in Online Training Process Management for Implementing Complex Open Ended Assignments in Engineering Education

A great variety of decision support systems is used to make quick and reliable decisions in educational activity in general and in engineering education in particular. The systems are applied in learning path planning, educational programmes implementation, online courses developing, online training process management, etc. Existing methods of decision making are not effective in case of online training process management in implementing complex open ended assignments, which cannot be checked by a test (for example, term papers, calculation and graphic works, laboratory works). Complex open ended assignments are widely used in the field of engineering education. That is why the problem of low training process management effectiveness in it is acute. A decision support method based on error classification with the use of intelligent technologies, such as cognitive modelling technology and knowledge engineering technology, and decision support system implementing the method are suggested in the paper. The decision support system allows to manage education training process regardless of assignment domain and can be applied in engineering education. Approbation of using and the assessment of the effectiveness of the decision support system was organized in online training process management during term paper performance in Ufa state aviation technical university as an example.