Socrates Digital? for Learning and Problem Solving presents the rationale for developing a Socratic problem-solving application. It describes how a computer-based Socratic problem-solving system called Socrates Digital? can keep problem-solvers on track, document the outcome of a problem-solving session, and share those results with problem-solvers and larger audiences. In addition, Socrates Digital? assists problem-solvers in combining evidence about their quality of reasoning for individual problem-solving steps and their overall confidence in the solution. Socrates Digital? also captures, manages, and distributes this knowledge across organizations to improve problem-solving. This book also presents how to build a Socrates Digital? system by detailing the four phases of design and development: understand, explore, materialize, and realize. The details include flow charts and pseudo-code for readers to implement Socrates Digital? in a general-purpose programming language. The completion of the design and development process results in a Socrates Digital? system that leverages artificial intelligence services from providers that include Apple, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Amazon. In addition, an appendix provides a demonstration of a no-code implementation of Socrates Digital? in Microsoft Power Virtual Agent.

Coverage:
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
•Artificial Intelligence
•Cognitive Psychology
•Database System Integration
•Individual Human Learning
•Instructional Design
•Knowledge Management System Integration
•Metacognitive Knowledge
•Organizational Learning
•Procedural Knowledge
•Stand-Alone Applications