Knowledge, Models and Tools in Support of Advanced Distance Learning

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Enabling distributed communication of manual skills

“…The development of ITS is becoming easier and cheaper with the introduction of authoring tools by academic institutions and commercial organizations. These authoring tools can be used to develop ITS that can be applied to training for tasks, such as equipment maintenance, that involve manual skills (Lesgold et al , 1988; Munro et al , 2006).…”