Web-based agents for reengineering engineering education

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Abstract

Agent technology has great potential to make WWW-based learning environments effective. This study describes four Web-based agents developed for reengineering a freshman chemistry laboratory education: 1) the "intelligent tutoring tool" that conducts on-line problem-solving coaching, 2) the "adaptive lecture guide" that provides navigation guidance sensitive to students' knowledge status, 3) the "student modeler" that assesses students' knowledge performance based on students'progress during on-line quiz sessions, 4) the expert-agent that stores the domain expertise. The advantages of this approach are two-fold. First, these agents play constructive roles within student's Web-based learning environment by providing an individualized interaction that overwise would be a fairly dull learning environment. Second, the modular design of the learning environment using agents has great potential to be progressively scaled to support widely cooperative educational content development in the future.

Identifier

0034345075 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Journal of Educational Computing Research

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.2190/0KY8-Y8FX-VTQM-EB92

ISSN

07356331

First Page

421

Last Page

430

Issue

4

Volume

23

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