A PEDAGOGICAL AGENT'S IMPACT IN AN OPEN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
Geraldine Clarebout, Jan Elen · Lirias (KU Leuven) · 2005
Research suggests that in learning environments that aim at factual knowledge acquisition pedagogical agents can act as tools to direct students' learning processes. Whether pedagogical agents have a similar impact in more open learning environments has not yet been addressed. In order to fill this gap, this contribution discusses a study in which two experimental conditions are compared to a control condition. In the first experimental condition the pedagogical agent's interventions are adapted to students' activities (APA-group). In the second experimental group the agent interferes on fixed time intervals (NPA-group). Results show that the NPA-group outperforms the APA group, while the latter does not differ from the control group.