Consulting

Fields:

• Methodology of research and design of complex man-machine systems;
• Business/Job//Task/Performance/Competence Analysis and Specification, Gap Analysis;
• Learner Modeling and Cognitive Diagnosis;
• Instructional knowledge and tasks representation;
• Instructional tasks solving methods and engines;
• Adaptive Assesment, Testing, Diagnosing and Remediation;
• Dynamic Adaptive/Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) for e-education and e-training. 
• ITS Frameworks and run-time Engines, Authoring Tools, and Applications Design Wizards
• ITS Applications design for education and industry;
• Outcome/Competence-oriented Learning Management Systems;
• Intelligent Learning Management Systems

Approach:

• Hierachical framework-based representation of Business, Job, Tasks, Performance and Competence.
• Analysis, Mathematical Posing and Generic Solution of traditionally ill-defined organizational, professional and instructional tasks;
• Complete separating Logical and Media aspects of instructional system design and instruction delivery;
• In Logical (control) aspect, proposing a Unified Generator of Intelligent Tutoring including:
  • a Uniform Framework for rapid design of intelligent courseware by filling in it with only specific data of each application;
  • a Uniform Framework for Learner modeling with unlimited capabilities to support dynamic adaptive instruction;
  • a Uniform Engine for automatic sequiencing basic instructional modes (supply, testing and diagnosing) and instructional assignments (of activities, resources, assets) within each current mode based on both of proposed Frameworks;
• In Media (presentation) aspect, reuse of existing CBT/WBT resources, as well as Authoring and Delivery Systems;
• Integrating Unified Generator of Intelligent Tutoring with existing CBT/WBT Authoring and Delivery Systems for breakthrough in cost-effective instruction;
• Integrating Unified Generator of Intelligent Tutoring as a control Middleware into existing Learning/Knowledge Management Systems bridging commonly recognized gap between learning delivery and management;
• Participation in Learning Technology Standards development, SCORM specifically.

Background:

• In Methodology: Interdisciplinary Research and Design of complex Man-Machine Systems;
• In Science: Systems Analysis, Systems Theory, Operations Research, Control Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Test Theory, Pattern Recognition, Technical Diagnostics, Measurement Theory, Knowledge Engineering, and Fuzzy Logic;
• In Systems Design: Customer Interviewing, Task Analysis, Requirements Elicitation, Conceptual Design, Architecture Design, Proposals Writing, Project Leading, Knowledge/Data Modeling, Algorithms Design, Interface Design, User Modeling, Prototype Development, Testing and Debugging, developing Tutorials and Business Presentations.
• In Instructional System Design: Adult learning theory, Didactics, Assessment, Cognitive Diagnostics, Instructional System Design;
  e-Learning Technologies, Content/Learning Management and Job/Performance Support;
• In Computer/Software: PC/Mac, MSOffice, CBT/Web Authoring tools, Dreamweaver, Lectora, SCORM, Reload, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, and XML.