Development of a Virtual Student Community to Communicate Via an E-learning Platform
Mouhsine Rhaimi, Rochdi Messoussi · 2014
To improve the performance of e-learning platforms (ELP), many evaluation studies have been performed, since learning provided by the platform is getting more customized, the evaluation becomes more complex, lengthy and costly, and also requires the mobilization of a large number of students and professors to simulate the richest educational exchange possible. Our approach is to create a Community of Virtual Students that will substitute a human group of students in the evaluation of a target platform. Our Virtual Students Community (VSC) is composed of intelligent and conscious students, based on a cognitive and normative multi-agent system, applying the BDI model. Virtual students will conduct exchanges with the platform, which significantly decrease the evaluation's costs and time, and increase the efficiency of exchanges, while providing detailed reports and monitoring, allowing a better assessment via a third-party tool.