e-learning, adaptive education, virtual teacher

This article describes the principles of a so-called intelligent virtual tutor. This is a programme system for managing education, automatically adjusting to the individual characteristics of the student and his/her learning style. It modifies its teaching to both static and dynamically changing characteristics of the student. For this the virtual teacher needs a sufficiently rich supply of various styles and forms of education as well as plenty of information on the style of learning, type of memory and other characteristics of the student. The paper describes the structure of maintaining this information and its use by the virtual teacher for intelligent learning management. As opposed to the semantic website and other current trends of individualization of education, this concerns a new original approach to individualizing education, which enables adaptation of the teaching material, not simply a run-through of these materials or user environment.