Challenges for Intelligent Support in Exploratory Learning: the case of ShapeBuilder?

Exploratory learning environments give a lot of freedom to learners to explore a task on their own. Although this can have a positive eect on their learning, the lack of structure makes it dicult to provide intelligent support on these system. Besides, the open nature of these systems makes it harder to compare how support is provided in dierent systems. This papers describes a series of scenarios that demonstrate these challenges in the context of an exploratory learning environment for mathematical generalisation and proposes a formulation that employs cases as a form of knowledge representation for modelling this domain.