A generic architecture for intelligent instruction for simulation modelling software packages

Abstract

This paper describes architecture for an intelligent interactive instructional simulation modelling environment. It revolves around the production of tutorial and courseware authoring for different simulation software packages with a generic user interface shell. The generic shell is a "front end" which provides a uniform graphical user interface to diverse simulation modelling software tutorials. An object- oriented perspective is combined with tutorial activities based on the task classification structure to form the interactions between objects. The development environment brings together objects that are functionally coherent and allows them to share common resources within the shell.