Agent-oriented Support Environment in Web-based Collaborative Learning
Tomoko Kojiri, Toyohide Watanabe, Yushi Ogawa · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2020
Abstract: Currently, the web-based learning support systems are one of interesting and hot topics in points of the utilization of Internet and the application of computers to education. In particular, the web-based collaboration is very applicable means to make unfamiliar students, who are unknown to each other, discuss together in the same virtual interaction space. However, there are some problems derived from the gap be-tween the real world and virtual environment: coordination of discussions, cooperative reactions, comprehension of learning progress, etc. These problems may be dependent on the fact that the actions of students cannot be in uenced from the behaviors of others directly. In this paper, we address a coordination mechanism to promote cooperative actions/re-actions for progressive discussions. Our idea is to apply an agent-oriented framework to this coordination mechanism and introduce two dierent types of agents. One is a coordinator and the other is a learner. The coordinator monitors the learning progress of groups and promotes the discussion, if necessary, so as to reach their common goal successfully. The learners are assigned to individual students, and act as interaction mediators among students in place of the corresponding students. Of course, the coor-dinator is a passive entity and learners are active entities in our collaborative learning space.