Comparing Learning Content Management System’s and Intelligent Tutoring System’s Effectiveness (original) (raw)

All instructional software should be evaluated before being used in educational process, because it is important to know whether it actually improves the student performance. Within the context of evaluating the educational influence of learning and teaching process, we measure educational influence by using the effect size as metric. In this paper, we presented the results of an experiment where we have compared one learning content management system, the Blackboard TM , with a representative of Web-based authoring shells for building intelligent tutoring systems, the xTEx-Sys. The experiment was coordinated remotely from distant location (another continent) by the developers of the xTEx-Sys, and directly conducted by the Blackboard TM using expert. The results gained through this experiment were not a total surprise, because this was the first time that the English speaking students, used to working with Blackboard TM , have used the xTEx-Sys, as well as, the first time that an experiment was conducted by a person who had no part in designing the xTEx-Sys.