On March 24, at the Pyle Center, Madison, WI, the Wisconsin Advanced Distributed Learning CO-Lab (WI ADL CO-Lab), a newly organized collaborative project involving the UW System, the Wisconsin Technical College System and the Department of Defense, hosted a day-long symposium on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs). ITSs are research-based software designed to teach students, track their progress and provide intelligent feedback.

Three ITSs were demonstrated at the symposium: Word Problem Tutor (WPS), Writing Process Tutor (Maestro) and Science Tutor (ISIS). These systems offer great potential for positive impact on literacy skills, mathematics, writing and science for the educational community and industry. Below is a summary of these three ITSs by the symposium presenter, Dr. Kurt Steuck of the Air Force Research Laboratory. For more information on the WI ADL CO-Lab see: http://www.wiadlcolab.org/