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An experiment using software agents for dialogue analysis in collaborative distance learning

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CSCL '02: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community

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Published: 07 January 2002 Publication History

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Trends in distance education show a growing emphasis in collaborative learning, stimulating students to exchange ideas and information. A collaborative environment, however, will demand a higher effort from the teacher, who will supervise all discussions among learners, so that they do not deviate from the intended topic for a lesson. Moreover, the information proceeding from interactions among students will provide to the teacher features that allow an individual evaluation of each student and his course. In this way, this paper describes a first experience using a multi-agent architecture that is able to monitor communication tools in a distance-learning group.

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An experiment using software agents for dialogue analysis in collaborative distance learning
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence

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CSCL '02: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning: Foundations for a CSCL Community

January 2002

757 pages

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Gerry Stahl
Fraunhofer - FIT, Germany

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International Society of the Learning Sciences

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Published: 07 January 2002

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