Examining Artificial Intelligence Techniques for the Design and Implementation of a Generally Acceptable Intelligent Educational Tutoring System (IETS)

Recent trend in education system all over the world has indicated that education is indebtedness for service and a binding obligation for an invaluable means of survival in life. If this is true, then, the need to prepare for the future by transmitting culture, values, norms and lessons of the past to present generation is inevitable and so a crucial issue to be discussed in this paper. Meanwhile, learning which is a distinctive feature of education is now found so difficult than ever due to lot of interlocking technological changes associated with factors such as lack of skilled teachers/lecturers, materials and tools, infrastructures and funds, just few to mention, that have severely dragged our educational standard to the brim of extinction. Thus, this has also tremendously influenced the direction of modern education. In fact, many scientific and technological techniques that had been employed for developing e-learning aids to improve knowledge acquisition, retention and regurgitation via the use of computer have proved futile until the emergence of one of the most significant changes in technology; Artificial Intelligence (Al). This paper, therefore, attempts to identify and discuss some of the Al techniques that can be utilized to provide models for developing an intelligent learning aided system that will meet up with the internationally acceptable educational software if we must face the challenges for the future. It further aims at providing methodologies for integrating Al into our educational software such that the required framework for designing, developing, expansion, incorporation, implementation and maintenance of an Al based educational system can be easily sustained.