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Adding an expert to the team: The expert flight plan critic *
Author(s) -
Gibbons Andrew,
Waki Randy,
Fairweather Peter
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2008.00812.x
Subject(s) - computer science , scope (computer science) , new product development , context (archaeology) , product (mathematics) , plan (archaeology) , embodied cognition , expert system , knowledge management , process management , management science , artificial intelligence , engineering , management , economics , history , paleontology , geometry , mathematics , archaeology , biology , programming language
This paper reports the development of a practical tool that provides expert feedback to students following an extended simulation exercise in cross‐country flight planning. In contrast to development for laboratory settings, the development of an expert instructional product for everyday use posed some interesting challenges, including dealing with a larger content scope, less ideal and controllable content structure, greater emphasis on the completeness and continuity of the student experience, and more stringent limits on time and money. Moreover, the transition from laboratory to real world caused the developers to think more critically of the principles of instruction embodied in the product and to place less emphasis on computer tool and technique questions. The product, which will be used in the context of routine ab initio pilot training, is described in terms of how these problems were solved and what lessons were learned that can be applied to the development of future instructional systems involving expertise.