Title :
Virtual Classroom with Intelligent Virtual Tutor
Author :
Hu, Yan ; Zhao, Gang
Author_Institution :
Eng. Res. Center for Educ. Inf. Technol., HuaZhong Normal Univ. Coll. of Electron. Inf. Eng., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
In order to improve the educational function of e-learning, a virtual classroom with intelligent virtual tutor has been developed. Architecture of the virtual classroom system is presented. The intelligent virtual tutor can perceive environment and make its own decision to enhance the interaction between tutor and remote students in some degree. The virtual tutor is emotive, which can help remote students enhance their understanding of the content. The system presented is used to learn course ¿Electronics¿ for sophomore. It´s for blended education, as a necessary supplement for real-life and regular classroom teaching and learning, which is competent to achieve tutoring tasks.
Keywords :
intelligent tutoring systems; virtual reality; classroom learning; classroom teaching; e-learning; educational function; electronics course; intelligent virtual tutor; sophomore; virtual classroom system; Avatars; Courseware; Education; Educational institutions; Electronic learning; Information technology; Intelligent networks; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Visualization; intelligence; interaction; virtual classroom; vitual tutor;
Conference_Titel :
e-Education, e-Business, e-Management, and e-Learning, 2010. IC4E '10. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sanya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5680-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5681-9
DOI :
10.1109/IC4E.2010.122