We are proud of what we have been able to accomplish with the help of our user community. These proceedings are intended to document the evolutions of GIFT as a tool for the authoring of intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) and the evaluation of adaptive instructional tools and methods.
Dr. Robert A. Sottilare leads adaptive training research at the US Army Research Laboratory where the focus of his research is automated authoring, instructional management, and analysis tools and methods for intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs). He is a co-creator of the Generalized Intelligent Framework for Tutoring (GIFT), an open source, AI-based adaptive instructional architecture. He is the lead editor for the Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems book series and the founding chair of the GIFT Users Symposia.